Quotes About Story

Oscar of Between initially subtitled "A Story of Failures." Several writer-friends recoiled, "No one will want to read it with a title like that." The longer she lives, the more interested Oscar becomes in failure – what we consider it to be. How so often it's the unnamed force that shapes the story.

Realism, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

No better story of renaming can be found in the Bible than the story of Jacob (Gen. 32:22-32)

That said, Fatal Vision does have a major virtue. McGinniss is genuinely obsessed with his story … with that story. That's the flaw of the book; McGinniss is so obsessed with his material that he doesn't know when to shut up about it.

John upon their return from a trip. "The

autobiography, he claimed

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Below us lay a valley white with snow. It was criss-crossed with lines, like a great cupped palm. But not even an expert seer would have had time to read the story of our future. Before we could get our bearings, my feet had quit the ground. Suddenly we were airborne and flying fast, carving a path between the rolling snow below and the glittering galaxies above.

Skibosh ended up writing a memoir and calling it, If You Wanna Have Fun, Go Someplace Else

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story.

I always thought that a film about how my father's life was shaped in his early years in Hong Kong would be a worthwhile story to share so we could better understand him as a human being and a warrior.

I think sequels are fine if there's a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen!

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.

The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling menace of a would-be vampire, but Chessex leaves the real possibility of his guilt an open question.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

When we billed the project to Netflix, we had this big two-and-a-half-minute trailer that had about 20 or 30 of these movies kind of woven together to try and tell the story of 'Stranger Things,' but obviously all these images or ideas were in our heads.