Stories Quotes

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're in combat with somebody, yes, a bond does grow.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

My best clients tell stories that inspire. They tell stories about situations that you can identify with.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

It's cool to tell a real story.

I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell