Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.
When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].
I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.
And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.
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.
Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.