Quotes About Story

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

I think 'Ek Chhotisi Love Story' has really damaged me. People think they can compromise my reputation and get away with it.

'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

I am the old story. L'histoire ancienne. But an old story can still be a good story, no?

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.

To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.