People Stories Quotes
I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.
That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.
The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.
I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.
Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."
People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working.
I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.
You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.
By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.
To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.