Story Quotes
-
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
-
So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
-
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!
-
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.
-
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
-
You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.
-
True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written.
-
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.
-
The Bible continues to tell the story of how God did not simply walk away from his creation in the midst of turmoil and rebellion but purposed to rescue it at great cost to himself through the sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection of his Son, Jesus.
-
We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
-
A good story never dies.
-
The best story is the story that gets to the most people.
-
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
-
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.
-
You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.
-
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.
-
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
-
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
-
Why do bad things happen to good people?Because it makes a good story.
-
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
-
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.
-
The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
-
The world needs your story in order to be complete.
-
I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
