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“From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing I Can Stories Interest Levels Audience Keys Sophistication Vantage Point

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”

Ifs Stories Suffering Bearable

Author:Isak Dinesen

“There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'”

Ifs Believe I Can Stories Bigs Would Be Wall Shoes Shops Pairs Flip Shouting Flip Flops

Author:Rose McGowan

“Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.”

Ifs Wells Kind Done Stories Shows Opportunity Doors Particular Vampire

Author:Madchen Amick

“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap”

“They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.”

Ifs Men Long Stories School Beautiful Fall Bits Alive Teaching Hair Female Falling In Love Love Story Fallen Blonde Heroines Austen Blonde Hair Vibrancy Long Blonde Hair

Author:Anna Maxwell Martin

“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Character Stories Jobs Actors Fit Somali

Author:Barkhad Abdi

“My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.”

Ifs Knows Littles Stories Dad Conversation My Dad Narrative Ministers Tigers Charisma Ark Pentecostal Noah's Ark

Author:John Boyega

“Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.”

People Ifs Way Want Feels Trying Different Sometimes Stories Actors Acting Pieces Written Easier Directors Compelled

Author:Paddy Considine

“I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.”

Ifs Stories Negative Chosen Insane Worried Controversial Storyline Chosen One

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”

Ifs Mind May Long Important War Stories Might Happens Able Term Memories Worry Generations Greed Long Term Thrive Fades Short Term Atrocities Younger Generation Short Term Memory

Book:How to Stay Sane

Source: How to Stay Sane

“If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Honestly

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Stories Seems Together Travel Tests Faults Gray Honeymoon

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.”

Ifs Way Mind Different Stories Artist Ego Sake Tricks Different Ways Illustration Illustrators

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.”

Ifs Writing Humans Heart Ideas Stories Sound My Own Particular Reader My Heart Demand Flesh Setting Settings Clothings Human Experience

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.”

Ifs Years I Can Two Book Stories Used House Sides Doors Communication Wall Ought Garden Fruit Coaches Used To Be Pleasant Forty Southern Bricks Suburbs Sixteen Railway

Book:Two years ago ... Third edition

Source: Two years ago ... Third edition

“Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Should Heart Stories Beautiful Film Theater Depth Halls Hallmark Resonance Unforgettable Power Of Stories

Author:Luanne Rice

“The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Stories Song Great Things Clarity

Author:Amy Grant

“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.”

Ifs Needs Wells Doe Ends Facts Stories Views Moral Wise Style Deserve Method Ill Seeking Historian Truthful Maxims Narration

Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

“If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.”

Ifs Stories Happened

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.”

Ifs Ideas Enough Stories Religion Miracle Borders Marvelous Whales Jonah Swallowing

Book:THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including

Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including

“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.”

Ifs Stories Promise Absolutes Intention Manifestation Dominant Improving

Book:Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

“But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.”

Ifs Men Humans Stories Actors Black Race Human Race Black History Eliminating

Author:Terrence Howard

“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.”

People Ifs Stories Shows Used Black Levels Common Support Higher Studios March Feds Black People Dogma Thread Cinematic Common Threads

Author:Terrence Howard

“The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.”

Ifs Stories America Progress Risen Stale

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.”

Ifs Feels Writing Stories Fiction Love Story Crafts Writing Fiction

Author:Joan Larkin

“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Stories Special Effects Taught Depends Hollywood Props Taught Us Special Effects

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Writing Kind Character Stories Deals Pay Attention Pay Attention

Author:Salman Rushdie

“One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Stills Stories I Believe Attention One Thing Angry Celebrate My Time Sad Story

Author:Sarah Kay

“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Kind Stories Situation Conflict Married Picks Areas Happy People Happily Married

Author:Kate Beaton

“Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.”

People Ifs Book Stories Speak Share Inspire Reader Research Theme Good Book

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida and I only lived there for a year.”

Ifs Years Stories Felt Crazy Months Couple Percent Florida Shocking Unbelievable Hooked Crazy Women

Author:Tucker Max

“I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Important Stories Trends Tails Coats

Author:Clint Eastwood

“It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.”

Ifs Writing Kind Stories Seems Novel Casts Metaphor Statements Phrases

Author:Hortense Calisher

“Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Character Stories Feelings Humanity Teach Lonely Fictional Character

Author:Isabel Allende

“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.”

Ifs Stories Able Ought

Book:Mystery and Manners

Source: Mystery and Manners

“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”

Ifs Thinking Art Important Stories Choices Culture Passion Position Expression Betray Things You Love Important Choices

Author:Lina Wertmuller

“If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stories Sex Party Groups Safe Finance Nervous Territory Edgy

Author:Maeve Binchy

“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”

Ifs Writing May Stories Seems Today Individual Fiction Essence Salvation Science Fiction Critics Philosopher Saved Core Thrive Crucial Corny Fiction Stories

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Done Stories Able Jobs Actors Acting Audience Oh My Gosh

Author:Julianne Moore

“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.”

Ifs Years Stories Running Feet Drug Including Details Eight Divorce Flying Planes Shirts Seats Excess T Shirt Lap Darling Life Story Rehab Testosterone Keep Running Very Sweet

Author:Rosanne Cash

“I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.”

Ifs Way Writing Wells Persons Enough Stories Chance

Author:Joss Whedon

“One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.”

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.”

Ifs Men Persons Stories Life Is Passion Individual Subjects Drama Universal Traits Biographers Idiosyncrasies Foibles Everyman

Author:Iris Origo

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