And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Packaging can be theater, it can create a story
The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p. 237)
Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!
God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.
For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.