Quotes About Story

Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Let us have a little more brandy,' the doctor said, 'and I will tell you the story of Hill House.

I think it cannot be too firmly emphasized that in the writing of any kind of fiction no scene and no character can be allowed to wander off by itself; there must be some furthering of the story in every sentence, and even the most fleeting background characters must partake of the story in some way; they must be characters peculiar to this story and no other.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

Cell phones do not belong in fiction, an editor once scolded in the margin of one of my manuscripts, and ever since - more than two decades now - I have wondered at the disconnect between tech-filled life and techless story.

It would be a story made up of scraps, but that was all he had.

to Camulodunum and told me the story. The others were not

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Ma vie serait une belle histoire qui deviendrait vraie au fur et à mesure que je me la raconterais.

Maud's manner indicated that the falsity of the story was an insignificant flaw in its general delightfulness.

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

Inaccurate similes and metaphors have the effect of deflecting the reader's attention from the story to the words on the page. Yet when carried off, especially when a simile is original and a metaphor sings, there is no greater glory in the practice of words.

The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I'm pretty sure that's what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life.

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.