Stories Quotes - Page 33

• All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

  John Green

  Powerful, Real, Reading

  "The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.

  Frank Stella

  Simple, Impact, Curves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

  Michael Scott

  Sex, Children, Book

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

  Michael Scott

  Research, Mythology, Novel

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

  Michael Scott

  Influence, Storytelling, Great Literary

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something I had to learn because I'd never been in that atmosphere. But I think I had a quick learning curve, because this is the job I was supposed to have.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

  Peter Bergen

  War, World, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

  Bethany Hamilton

  Encouragement, Media, People

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• If I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

  Nas

  Real, Writing, Perspective

  Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.

  Steve Wozniak

  Zero, Believe, Recovery

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Destiny, Thinking

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Character, People

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

  Joey Logano

  Airports, People, Guy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Pages Turning, Journalism, Thrillers

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

  Brad Pitt

  Literature, Today, Intention

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Writing, Essence, Jewels

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.

  Sandra Brown

  Book, Character, Ideas

  "Sandra Brown, author of 'Deadline'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 27, 2013.

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• All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.

  Stan Lee

  Jobs, Book, Years

  "Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview with B.J. Hammerstein, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Thinking, Cnn, Needs

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

  Chris Tucker

  Crowds, Want, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

  Michael Shannon

  Character, Magic, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

  Michael Schur

  Life Changing, Games, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season - 13 or 26 episodes, whatever it might be - than in the course of one two-hour movie. You can do so many more novelistic kinds of things on a TV show - with time, with gradual development of relationships, and so on - than you could possibly do in a movie. And that is very appealing.

  Michael Chabon

  Character, Tv Shows, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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