Quotes by Story People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it. Sarah Koenig story good know people To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights. Sarah Harrison story someone me government I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. Sarah Hall short story you writing I suppose 'This Little Life' and 'Brick Lane' both have things in common in that they have a female protagonist very much at the centre of the story, and they're subjectively told. Sarah Gavron brick story things life You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point. Sarah Gadon point story great you It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up. Sara Gruen story sitting reality world I gave everything I had to give to 'Devdas.' I knew I would never make a better love story because there is none. Sanjay Leela Bhansali story better never love Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about? Sanjay Kumar customer story understand talking For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.' Sandra Brown story back sometimes book I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. Sandra Cisneros story thought poor language It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story. Rebekah Brooks story know source impossible For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. Rebecca Skloot story me book people No love story ends or begins out of accordance with how it needs to go. Rebecca Serle story go no-love love Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane. Richard Bausch short story thought me We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede. Richard Ben Cramer flowers rest story air 'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away? Rick Yancey story everything trust believe In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed. Rick Smolan story me time children Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. Rick Perlstein story progress architecture business It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. Robert Creeley river friend story time I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right. Robert Coppola Schwartzman story feel place you «56789101112131415»
