Story Quotes
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
Simon Toyne -
If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.
Nipsey Hussle
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I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.
Eve Ensler -
For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion...
Brian Ruckley -
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.
Nicholas Royle -
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!
Nathan Greno -
I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
Simon Toyne -
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
Natalie Portman
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It's no sin to tell a good story.
Steven Heighton -
I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
Boman Irani -
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
Nicolas Cage -
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.
Newell Dwight Hillis -
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.
Kevin Costner -
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
Harvey Cox
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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.
Peter Paige -
The Heart of Fairyland is a story
Catherynne M. Valente -
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
Sylvester McCoy -
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
Bob Goff -
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.
Elizabeth Wein -
People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
Sarah Koenig
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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.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard Kipling -
It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
Sarah Koenig