Quotes About Storytelling

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.