Quotes About Story

I can't say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I've never been able to pull one off without it.

He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73) - Bill Clinton Paying Attention

It is important to tell your story. It is equally important not to get trapped in your story. It is not what happened to us that matters but how what happened hurt us.

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Do you think that the size of the book is justified by the complexity of the story? Grey asked, leaning forward to light a charoot from the candle on the sideboard. It must after all be a great expense to the publisher, as well as requiring a substantial effort from the reader, a book of that length?

Every legend has one foot on the truth.

When I decided that I should have a female character, I simply introduced her, knowing nothing about her other than the fact that she was an Englishwoman. ... Whereupon Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp promptly took over the story and began telling it herself. Being in no position to argue with her, I took the path of least resistance, and went along to see what would happen next.

In all honesty, the story plays out this way because (bear in mind that I wrote it for practice and never intended to show it to anyone, let alone try to publish it) I'd read several romance novels in which the heroine was threatened by rape or actually raped—and having already decided in a moment of whimsy that Jamie should be the virgin bridegroom…I sort of shrugged and said, "Hey, turnabout's fair play….

It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.

I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story and personality.

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas.

Since 'Mononoke' has such a dramatic story, I played up the drama, emphasizing the power of a magnum opus.

I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story.

When people hear my story, my hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them, because I am living the life I've always dreamed.

I felt that, with 'Zatanna,' I had a chance to do a story about a strong, driven woman.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.