Story Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
