Quotes About Narrative

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

To me, it feels like every time I'm watching some trans story, it's about their grief around their gender. And there's not really a lot of opportunity for them to explore stories outside of that. It's just really frustrating. It's really one dimensional.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I have not told half of what I saw.

If you're successful, 'Blue Shift' has what many have called the most satisfying 'Half-Life' ending yet.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

Tulip: Okay, let me tell you what you're doing here-- you're writing a story. You've got the plot and dialogue from Melrose Place and fucking Baywatch, and you're writing yourself a little story in your head... The trouble is, you're using me as one of the characters.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

WELCOME, EVERYONE!" he said. "IT'S THE YEAR 2129, AND BOY DO I HAVE A STORY FOR YOU!