Stories Quotes
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.
Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.
Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.
It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
Share your stories of your worst moments as well as your best. Let your sisters know their problems are not unique and they are not alone.
The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story.
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.
Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.
I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.
My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story