Quotes About Story

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

As time passes, my story fades away.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

Nahl's erasure of the tattoo in the book, removes from the story the possibility that the tattoo made her Mohave. And it neglects a larger truth: the Mohaves did not tattoo their captives; they tattooed their own.