Quotes About Story

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently.

But first the endgames. Because it seems that no matter what you think of them, they must be played, even if, like the independence of India or Jamaica, like the signing of peace treaties or the docking of passenger boats, the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.

Jeder Augenblick geschieht zweifach: innen und außen, und es sind zwei unterschiedliche Geschichten.

when he returned he told

Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?' afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Không Ä'au Ä'á»›n nào lá»›n b?ng vi?c ph?i mang trong mình má»™t câu chuy?n không ???c k? ra.

The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very accessible because it is so heartbreakingly human.

I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

I am adopted, and I am so grateful for my story, and that's what makes me who I am.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

'The Message' is one of my most ambitious projects in terms of content and story.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

It's always good to have a story arch.

Das Glück hat keine Geschichte, und die Erzähler aller Länder haben das so gut begriffen, dass der Satz "Sie wurden glücklich" alle Liebesabenteuer schließt.