Story Quotes
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King.
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Everyone has a story.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
