Story Quotes
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
-
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
-
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.
-
Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
-
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
-
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
-
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.
-
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
-
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.'
-
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
-
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
-
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.
-
People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
-
Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.
-
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.
-
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
-
True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
-
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.
-
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.'
-
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
-
Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
-
They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.
-
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
