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We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
by Terri Windling (Artist) keywords: age, always, been, brutal, dark, each, experience, horrors, human, less, lived, now, range, reflect, stories, sublime , times I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
by Marie Windsor (Actor, American , born in 1919) keywords: detective, doing, film, know, lighting, low, noir, stories, thought , were I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
by Alex Winter (Actor, American , born in 1965) keywords: camera, cinema, classical, dialogue, interesting, little, love, really, sort, stories, telling, using, very, way, were , where I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
by Dick Wolf (Producer, American , born in 1946) keywords: audiences, based, because, make, many, only, really, stories, television, think, times, want , watch Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
by Gene Wolfe (Writer, American , born in 1931) keywords: ambiguity, attainable, certainly, closure, contributes, doubt, necessary, never, richness, some, stories, story, thematic , those Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
by Gene Wolfe (Writer, American , born in 1931) keywords: because, collect, fine, hope, later, online, part, publication, stories , those I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: believe, best, closer, different, form, novel, novels, perhaps, poetry, seem, short, spirit, stories, story , than It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: around, form, grew, narrative, past, probably, remember, short, stories, story, tend, things, time, told, up, why , writer Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: anything, because, else, many, much, started, stories, time, writers , writing There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: certain, joy, off, pull, reward, sense, short, stories, things, wonderful , writing You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: because, best, clued, constructed, disappointing, find, into, kind, most, novels, own, short, stories, their, them , world Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: get, involved, late, lawyers, quite, realized, seriously, something, stories, until, watergate , were I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
by Zhang Yimou (Director, Chinese , born in 1950) keywords: am, before, better, functioning, getting, hope, mind, old, some, still, stories, tell , too Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: actually, after, easy, finding, hard, ideas, into, now, part, sorting, stories, them, through, turning, while , work I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: days, fantasy, fiction, horror, mostly, novelist, science, short, stories, these , written I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
by Zig Ziglar (Author, American , born in 1926) keywords: across, areas, balance, being, believe, business, considered, having, home, life, many, means, shambles, stories, success, successful, truly , your There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: awareness, challenging, change, circumstance, comes, each, engaging, entertain, exclusive, fact, filmmaker, first, foremost, fuel, greater, happen, hope, mutually, other, out, reason, stories, themes, then, time, understanding, want , why
