The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
It's been a crazy ride, truly a Cinderella story.
Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.
'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?
When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.
We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
