It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
In 'The High Low', in some respects an audio version of 'Grazia,' Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton wonder whether they missed something in their survey of the Harvey Weinstein story. Maybe they did, they decide.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
There are a lot of parallels to the 'Sparkle' story and my story.
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
