Story Quotes
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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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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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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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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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
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They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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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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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
