Story Quotes
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
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A scene isn't a random stretch of action. It arises for a reason, and it's going somewhere. It has meaning. It has a point: at least one thing that needs to be shown or established at that spot in a story.
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A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
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Every great love starts with a great story.
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Good marketers tell a story.
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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.
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I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
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True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written.
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A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion...
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
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Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
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Every story is us
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
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I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what’s real and what’s translated into a memory from a story you heard.
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I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.
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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
