Quotes About Storytelling

And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.

You know, I hope that someday they make a movie about me. People need to know the story of 'Dolemite;' they need to know my story.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

I and Dil Raju guru have always wanted to work with each other. He had sent to me stories, 4-5 over the years, but somehow, something was not perfect with them. But when I listened to 'Nenu Local,' I felt the time had arrived.

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I love movies.

Your Life Doesn't Need A Happily-Ever-After To Be A Damn Good Story

My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, we know what sad is, and then the whole book is basically a description of the million and one ways in which our protagonist is sad. Gimme a break! Get on with it!

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

two days before he disappeared, told me that the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.)

What was my first word? I asked him, and he said: Don't. I asked him what my second word was but he couldn't remember. I think I'd have made something up if I was him. Like go.

Demano un breu respir. L'Ona Friesen em torna a mirar encuriosida, potser el que la intriga és la idea d'un «respir» (de ben segur que és una paraula que no havia sentit mai, ni en una traducció), o potser l'encurioseix la idea d'un respir sostingut, l'exquisida angoixa del pensament no expressat, de la narració de la vida, del fil que lliga, que ferma, que reté. Un respir, un alè, sostinguts. La narrativa. Les dones me'l concedeixen.

We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't me you stop telling the story.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.