Quotes About Narrative

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.