Stories Quotes - Page 28

• I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

  Nick Simmons

  Book, Heart, Character

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• The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

  ZZ Packer

  Cutting, Editing, Issues

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• Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.

  David

  Mean, Talking, Car

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• A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

  DJ Patil

  Unique, Data, Skills

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Fighting, Games, Office

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• A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

  Tara Dakides

  Tattoo, Running, Skins

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• I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

  Homaro Cantu

  Conspiracy

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• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Spring, Real

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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Independent, Wife, Dancer

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• We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as many children as possible are spared the brutalities of war. Our joint action has, and will, make a difference, if only we make the effort.

  Radhika Coomaraswamy

  Children, War, Differences

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• A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Choices, Challenges, Invitations

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.132, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

  Robbie Robertson

  Boys

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• When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

  Rian Johnson

  News Stories, Buttons, Pleasure

  Source: collider.com

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• For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fiction, World, Storyteller

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.207, Shambhala Publications

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• Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Courage, Responsibility

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• A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Silence, Desire

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Waiting, Next

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• If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hollywood, Scripts, Come Up

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• The right story needs the right telling.

  John Green

  Writing, Needs

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• What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

  Marc Forster

  Mean, Passionate, Telling Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Ideas, Risk

  "Lost in Space: A Chat With Prometheus Writer-Producer Damon Lindelof". Interview with Gregory Weinkauf, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.

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• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  William Styron

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Tired, Thinking, Long

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• This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even profound. The authors, writing for nonspecialists, take pains to explain technical ideas in nontechnical language, and the book should interest general readers as well as a large mathematical audience.

  Steven G. Krantz

  Pain, Hate, Book

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