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It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
Greg Kinnear
Complete
Tell
Easy
About
Writers
Feel
Like
Make
Story
Interesting
Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.
Greg Lake
Me
You
Man
Wonderful
Favorite
Pick
Songs
Like
Course
Done
Behind
Just
Children
Different
Tune
Story
Special
Lucky
Different Things
Things
'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.
Greg MacGillivray
Change
Culture
Tried
Superficial
About
Surf
How
Surfing
Real
Influenced
Happened
Story
Hollywood
Really
View
Popular
Popular Culture
To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.
Greg McHugh
Difficult
Characters
Telling
Written
Combine
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Story
Interesting
Thing
Brilliantly
Difficult Thing
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.
Greg Rucka
Me
Background
Prose
Come
Led
Short
Short Story
Story
Novels
The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.
Greg Rucka
Christmas
Writing
Remember
Old
First
Down
Paper
Ten
Ten Years
Wrote
Years
Truly
Story
Set
To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful.
Greg Rucka
Me
You
People
Joy
Wonderful
Wicked
Add
Incredibly
Punish
Emotional
Him
Content
Get
Going
Story
Now
Watching
The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.
Greg Rucka
You
Finished
Own
Once
Read
Revelations
Goal
Done
Story
A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.
Greg Rucka
Character
Telling
Around
Am
Itself
Wandering
Story
Interested
Asking
Who
Who Am I
I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements.
Greg Rucka
Best
Say
Kind
About
Abstract
Perhaps
Talk
Genre
Talking
Covers
Umbrella
Fan
Story
Really
Certain
Elements
You go to certain movies where everything will be right and you will be invested in the story, but a movie like 'The Room' affects you instantly, and you are left with asking questions. You're almost like a part of the movie, as its not doing what it's supposed to do, and you become one with the film, and you say what you want.
Greg Sestero
You
Will
Become
Everything
Say
Invested
Part
Instantly
Almost
Like
Supposed
Doing
Go
Affects
Left
Questions
Where
Want
Movie
Story
Movies
Room
Asking
Asking Questions
Certain
Film
Right
I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!
Gregg Allman
Day
Man
Sold
Pleased
Saw
Bit
Bestseller
Cross
Bear
Take
New
Well
How
Surprised
Times
York
List
Any
New York
New York Times
Story
Really
Received
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
Gregg Easterbrook
Day
Pressure
Ran
Disappeared
Times
Behave
Same
Human
Human Beings
Story
Poorly
Beings
Evening
Early
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.
Gregory Maguire
History
Age
Darkness
Light
Mirror
Too
Ways
Those
Evolution
About
Something
More
Adult
Child
Middle
Middle Ages
Story
Little
Ages
Less
Reason
Many
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.
Greg van Eekhout
Future
Science
Natural
Book
Oppression
World
Vision
Dark
Build
Thinking
Kid
Destroyed
Promised
Seemed
Only
Civilization
Peril
Became
Science Fiction
Around
Boy
End
Up
Itself
End Of The World
Fiction
Story
Convinced
Novel
Nearly
Started
Need
There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.
Greg van Eekhout
World
Building
Advance
Until
Because
Off
Up
Maybe
Hold
Story
Really
Certain
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Amount
Playing
Need
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.
Greta Gerwig
You
Job
Important
Before
Think
Ways
Out
Characters
Telling
Some
Write
Talking
Doing
End
Up
Listen
Want
Decide
Story
Them
Much
Really
Your
Figure
Core
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.
Greta Gerwig
Work
Funny
Me
You
People
Will
Think
Assumption
Say
Bits
People Say
Something
Write
Taken
Clearly
Do You Know
Know
Well
Always
How
Making
Very
Autobiographical
Just
Autobiography
Story
Whether
Interesting
Certainly
Connected
Things
Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can, too.
Gretchen Carlson
Hope
Me
You
People
Inspire
Goals
Will
Nothing
Too
Give
Reach
Read
Real
Handed
Up
Real Story
Story
Them
Ever
You want to have a feeling when you sing that you just love singing; you love the feeling of singing, and you love this feeling of this voice coming out of your body into this world. It's about really getting that most beautiful, pure, centered tone, thinking about the story of each song and the lyrics, and connecting your own life to that story.
Gretchen Parlato
Life
Love
Beautiful
You
Song
World
Most Beautiful
Pure
Feeling
Singing
Own
Thinking
Lyrics
Out
About
Voice
Most
Sing
Coming
Getting
Just
Want
Centered
Story
Really
Body
Your
Your Body
Connecting
Each
Tone
It's really fun to get into that process of creating an album and telling a story. I really love it.
Gretchen Parlato
Love
Telling
Get
Process
Story
Really
Creating
Fun
Album
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
Grete Waitz
Me
You
Cancer
Believe
Has-Been
Bad
Staying
Inspiration
Through
Armstrong
Another
Motivated
Been
His
Fit
Get
Story
Helped
Keeping
Nearly
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
Griffin Dunne
Money
Care
Long
Picture
Big
Enough
Enough Money
Back
Independent
Able
Small
Studio
Budget
Like
Make
Big Budget
Got
Go
Being
Story
Forth
Really
Compelling
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You
Reading
Beginning
Though
Telling
See
Like
Because
End
Movie
Story
Even
Images
Watching
I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy.
Guillermo del Toro
Chapter
Favorite
Superhero
Guy
Attracted
Because
Doing
Wolverine
Very
Story
Japan
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.
Gunter Grass
You
Together
Memory
Sometimes
Remember
Try
Shifting
Everybody
Fragments
Join
Soon
Knows
How
Fallible
Precisely
Story
Certain
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