Story Quotes
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
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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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I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that 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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I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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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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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
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In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)
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Everyone has a story that changed their life forever. Remember to have compassion.
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
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Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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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.
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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 ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
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It's no sin to tell a good story.
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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.
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There's conflict in every story.
