Stories Quotes

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

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.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

...New Beginning to the same old story

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.