Story Quotes
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
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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.
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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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What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.
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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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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
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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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Improvise. Write your own damn story.
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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
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There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
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When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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There's conflict in every story.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.
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My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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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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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.
