Stories Quotes - Page 21

• Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

  Ice Cube

  Police, Hollywood, Obsessed

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2014.

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• I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

  Meryl Streep

  Song, Unbearable, Found

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Ideas, Long

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

  Marc E. Platt

  Character, Filters, Feels

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Example, Done

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

  Max Lucado

  Roots

  "Max Lucado on his new film and why December is so painful for so many". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Thinking, Events

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  Zero, Progress, Movement

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

  "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison - part two". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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• All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Successful, Two, Errors

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Thinking, Interesting

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.

  James Gunn

  Attention, Want, Intention

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

  Carl Reiner

  Couple, War, Humorous

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

  Carl Reiner

  Giving, Tasks, Impossible

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Clothes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.

  Charles Halford

  Special, Want, Globes

  Source: collider.com

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• Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Jobs, Gossip, Senators

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Bookstores

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Next, Months

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Inspire, Originals

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Men, Voice

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Goal, Week

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of "Nights in Rodanthe" and "The Notebook"". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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