Quotes About Narrative

Write about daily life as you would write history.

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.

Some people think it's a reality that black fathers don't take care of their children, but that's not true.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how you bring them in. That's my favorite part of the business.

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

There's such a huge diaspora of Filipino workers around the world and I want to help tell their story.