Quotes About Story

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfect time.

Say you want to live life like a movie.Keep in mind there's a running time.

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story.

He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.