Story Quotes

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Atari is a very sad story.

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.