In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
And remember, it's always her fault. That's your story and you're sticking to it.
The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
One story sounds good until another is told
The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity. . . . No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
True education is a kind of never-ending story. . .
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. ' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.