In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. – Eric S. Raymond
In a ghost story, usually you’ve got to hang on until daylight, and you’ll be alright. But if daylight’s four months away, then you have a problem. – Michelle Paver
There are two separate scripts for ‘Mockingjay’ parts one and two. It’s definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts. – Francis Lawrence
Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often ‘bury the lede.’ ‘Burying the lede’ is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy. – Gina Barreca
I can’t tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get. – Cristela Alonzo
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it. – Drummond Money-Coutts
There’s always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. – Elliott Abrams
Early on, a story’s meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it – and so things have to be ramped up. – George Saunders
Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film. – Graham Moore
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story. – Elena Anaya
The first book I fell in love with was ‘Little Toot,’ the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor. – Edward St Aubyn
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs. – Erin Gruwell
I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can’t tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore. – Cristela Alonzo
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented. – Dick Bruna
If they’re going to write a story they’re going to write the story whether it’s true or not. – Mary-Kate Olsen
It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that. – Dave Morris
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can’t go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. – Cornelia Funke
The blues is nothing but a story… The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing… what they all went through. It’s not just a song, see? – David Edwards
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren’t things you know about until you do the story. – Chuck Klosterman
I make a film – and once I’ve made it, everyone comes along and says ‘Ah! This is a film that’s political, or social’, or whatever. But I’m not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn’t thinking about exactly what it all meant. – Dario Argento
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It’s not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers’ story and make it theirs, will they virally market it. – Peter Guber
Of all the things I’ve done, the first ‘Strongman’ story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It’s almost a ‘Dark Knight Returns’ riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman. – Charles Soule
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come. – Frances Beinecke
All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you’re a musician. – Dave Holland
After you’ve written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. – Erle Stanley Gardner
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the ’50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like ‘Dime Western’ and ’10 Story Western’ that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, ‘I like Westerns.’ – Elmore Leonard
