Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them..
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great ….
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must cl….
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings..
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I a….
It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictiona….
There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music..
Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember.
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means t….
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will..
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story..
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did….
Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional trigg….
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward..
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories..
ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ.
The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial indepen….
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story..
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about..
You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment..
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me..