Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

Tell your story with your whole heart.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.