“I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.” WayTryingStoriesInterestingHappeningsMethodTechniqueStorytellingInteresting Ways Author:Jørgen Leth
“The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.” WritingKindI CanStoriesInterestingLevelsToo MuchResearchBuiltEnjoymentTopicsVaryScaffolding Author:Neal Stephenson
“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.” PeopleTryingStoriesBigsRunningLiteratureMy OwnInterestingFictionEventsTasteOrdinaryTablesBe GoodKitchenParksThemeGroundedOrdinary PeopleGood StoryTrailersBackdropKitchen TableTrailer Park Author:Neal Stephenson
“I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.” WantStoriesShowsSidesInterestingPowerfulPlansSeeingTaughtMeetingsBossNavigateUnicornReally PowerfulInteresting Stories Author:Lilly Singh
“The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.” PeopleWritingFirstsMadeI CanStoriesInterestingHeardSakeStorytellingCategoriesPersonal Stories Author:Joan Tewkesbury
“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.” IfsWantWritingSaidStoriesUseRememberPoliticalWaitingInterestingCasesSubjectsMaterialsAddMagazinesGossipCollectingColumnsSomething Interesting Author:Simon Hoggart
“'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.” PeopleWayFeelsLongStillsTwoReasonStoriesWould BeTogetherGuyInterestingGayMountainHappeningsShameLove StoryClosetsLong WayBeing GaySad LoveTwo GuysBrokeback Mountain Author:Wesley Morris
“The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.” StoriesThreePerfectInterestingMinutesSentencesSingle Sentence Author:Malik Bendjelloul
“Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.” StoriesInterestingStudyStudentsPerformersShort StoryInstructionComposerCompositionLet It Go Author:Nico Muhly
“I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.” KindStoriesFatherInterestingReaderTalesTallProxyTall Tales Author:Damon Lindelof
“A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.” ThinkingShouldStoriesBlackWhiteInterestingReaderSettingSettingsBlack And WhiteInteresting Things Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction