Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.
If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
I do feel like there`s this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That`s the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to tell.
We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.
I will continue to look for opportunities to tell stories that speak to a fresh generational, topical and multicultural point of view.
Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.
When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.