Quotes About Story

How do we live our life? This is our art, the art of living. With our power of creation, we express the force of life in everything we say, everything we feel, everything we do. But there are two kinds of artists: the ones who create their story without awareness, and the ones who recover awareness and create their story with truth and with love.

You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.

Jestem historykiem - potwierdzi? uczony i doda? ni w pi??, ni w dziewi??: - Dzi? wieczorem na Patriarszych Prudach wydarzy si? nadzwyczaj interesuj?ca historia.

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation, especially if it is based on the self-analysis of a mature mind and is written with no vain desire to rouse our sympathy and curiosity. The problem with Rousseau's Confessions is that he read them to his friends.

Most of us have a particular narrative that we tell ourselves (and others) about how we came to be who we are.

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a myth, that genesis looks to me like a conversion story: Saul becoming Paul; the novelist being born from the ruins of his lyrical world.

It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in which he met her and in which she lives, to try, with dogged inner concentration, to purify her of everything that is not her self, which is to say also of the story that they lived through together and that gives their love its shape.

El amor tiende a hacer una leyenda de sí mismo y a mitificar retrospectivamente sus comienzos.

ningún episodio está a priori condenado a seguir siendo para siempre episodio, porque cualquier acontecimiento, aun el más insignificante, esconde dentro de sí la posibilidad de llegar a ser antes o después la causa de otros acontecimientos y convertirse así en una historia o una aventura.

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me.

It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes.

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.