It was always about the story rather than the character.
I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?
And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.
I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally, or rather it's quite clear to them that it's only a story, only make believe.
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.
People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
True education is a kind of never-ending story. . .
All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.