“Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.” WorldNeedsLooksReasonStoriesWorstEventsObjectsTrialsTalesFairyVillainFairy TaleClosetsSurvivingHeroinesSkeletons Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.” PeopleHas BeensImportantDifferentStoriesOpportunityShareConditionsEventsProjectsValuableTraumaScalesSeptemberConfinedHurricanesSeptember 11KatrinaLarge ScaleSeptember 11thHurricane KatrinaOral HistoryWorking ConditionsLiving Conditions Author:Patricia Leavy
“You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.” TryingMeanStoriesEventsDramatic Author:Mark Boal
“You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.” MayStoriesAbleEvents Author:Amy Chan
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsI CanFactsStoriesRunningMemoriesHeardEventsWallEssenceAverageIsolationI Have LearnedIncapableSuperficialMy ThoughtsEvery SecondUnbrokenNo Memory Author:Franz Kafka
“Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!” StoriesTurnsVoiceLinesFictionHellWonderfulEventsInsightUnexpectedEntertainingJustinUnexpected Turns Author:Josip Novakovich
“I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.” WantHumansPersonsIdeasWholeStoriesMotivationFeltEventsTruth IsReflectionConnectionsLaysHistorianHuman History Author:Tom Hanks
“I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.” FeelsWritingTryingKindStoriesFeelingsEventsDetailsJournalAlchemyElusiveFeels Right Author:Matt Berninger
“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.” WritingStoriesSongDifficultFictionEventsPureLimits Author:Jason Mraz
“Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.” WorldLooksCharacterHelpingStoriesUsePayEventsEmotionalSceneNotesMoodOpeningLandscapeToneDescriptionDescribing Author:Janet Fitch
“Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.” PeopleKnowsStoriesPoliticalEventsAdventureSeriesCatastropheTissuesEnglish History Author:Elizabeth Montagu
“Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.” StoriesHandsForceEventsStrangeMouthsRedSurpriseDrivingUnexpectedCoincidenceUnlikelyNotebookStrange ThingsTrue StoryDriving Force Author:Paul Auster
“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.” ThinkingSaidEndsStoriesMovingLinesAbilityDecisionForgetHappenedMediaEventsElectionCourtSupremeNarrativeSupreme CourtTime To Move OnCourt DecisionSimply Said Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.” IfsGivingFeelsWritingI CanStoriesMemoriesEventsPerceptionDirectGive MeObjectivesMeant To BeInfallibleObjective Truth Author:Marie Calloway
“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDifferentRealCharacterStoriesBigsHappensFilmStarsMediaDogEventsFinanceAfternoonMainstreamExplainingUndertakingsJuliaDifferent CharactersDog Days Author:Jodie Foster
“You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.” IfsTryingStoriesSongFocusEventsNewsNews Stories Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLongMadeStoriesRecordsEventsMake Sense Author:Justin Vernon
“There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.” FirstsStoriesCertainBornOur LivesEventsWalkingAspectStructureSequenceSequencingSequence Of Events Author:Antonio Damasio
“It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.” WayWritingLittlesPhilosophyStoriesActorsStuffActingTakenFocusEventsLessonsEssenceI've LearnedFilmmakingDistractedClicheGood WritingGood Acting Author:Ben Affleck
“Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.” HelpingStoriesAgeNextDoorsEventsCitizensNewsHappeningsResourcesTraditionalJournalistDigitalSiteGatheringHighlightsOverlookedDigital AgeTapping Author:Arianna Huffington
“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?” SaidTwoDifferentStoriesFoundHouseParentSawsHappenedEventsSonConcernedDecidedClubsChickensPortionsLocationTrue Story Author:Paul Haggis
“For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.” PeopleThinkingStoriesRememberCenturyEventsMajorsForgotten20th CenturyWilsonQuintessential Author:Karina Longworth
“[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.” PeopleStoriesBigsArtistGreaterEventsIndustryPerformingPercentagesMusic IndustryPerforming ArtsSuccess StoriesPerforming Artist Author:Russell Simmons
“The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.” StoriesShowsEarthJobsPoliticalTalkingEventsTablesAverageCurrentsCraftsBotherArenaShow BusinessOnionsDipMovie SetsCurrent Events Author:Tom Hanks
“Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but also added up to a larger story. As I was writing them, I kept going back and forth, because something would happen in one story that would have to be reflected in the other story. And yet the same event would also have to be perceived in different ways by Brendan and Evelyn, because they are different people with their own interpretations.” PeopleWayWritingTwoDifferentStoriesHappensEventsDifferent WaysInterpretationDifferent PeoplesBack And Forth Author:Theodora Goss
“The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.” IfsThinkingDifferentStoriesShowsSpaceWatchesIssuesEventsNew YorkNewsObviousVideoTraditionalJournalismJournalistDigitalPrintAdsNot AloneSlidesPresentationUkraineNew York TimesClicksBanner Author:Norman Pearlstine
“I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.” ThinkingFeelsMayPersonsDifferentSometimesStoriesHappensCertainEventsUniqueAspectSympatheticDifferent Life Author:Chath Piersath
“I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.” IfsDoneStoriesUseTogetherStuffStyleEventsNew YorkFitMetsIf I CouldReportersNew York TimesBeing DoneBeing Funny Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.” WorldBookDifferentStoriesEventsAspectSeriesConnectedRealmsEggsEasterRippleSequelsIntertwinedBackdropEaster Egg Author:Paul S. Kemp
“I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.” BookStoriesFoundEventsMarkOriginalsAdaptedGuessingPersonal Stories Author:Max Lucado
“There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.” Has BeensStoriesBigsWinningNationsResultsSupportFansAchieveEventsFootballFantasticTitlesHostGlobesMiraculous Author:Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang