Story Quotes
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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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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Create a story of which you will be proud.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
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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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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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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
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If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
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For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion...
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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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By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
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Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
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When you got a great cast around you, it makes the story easier to tell, to be honest.
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
