174 quotes found
“It's the story that counts.”
“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”
“I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.”
“I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.”
“I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.”
“Atari is a very sad story.”
“If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.”
“You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.”
“You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.”
“The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.”
“This story will never go down.”
“And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.”
“But that is another story.”
“And thereby hangs a tale.”
“For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.”
“Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.”
“The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.”
“Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.”
“I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.”
“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.”
