Story Quotes
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When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
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You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.
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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
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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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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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Yes... no one knows how the story will end. Perhaps a miracle will occur. So right here and now, laugh with others as much as you can.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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What I expect from a good story is that it will tell me today what I can't know from any other source but that story, from its unique way of putting something into words, from the feeling that it implies.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
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My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.
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I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
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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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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.
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A good story never dies.
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
