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Quotes About Story

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.
~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~ Avi Arad
As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.
~ Matthew Healy
Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.
~ Robert De Niro
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
~ Walt Disney
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
~ John Scalzi, The Last Colony
I have a plot, but not much happens.
~ Howard Nemerov
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
~ Malgorzata Szumowska
Well, honor is the subject of my story.
~ William Shakespeare
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.
~ Thomas Langmann
I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.""Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.
~ D.L. Orton, Crossing in Time
Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!
~ Mercedes Lackey, Bastion
Been there, done that. I'm sure I've got a T-shirt somewhere to prove it.
~ Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss
God is the creator of all good plot twists!
~ Shannon L. Alder
It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
~ James Hilton, Random Harvest
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
~ Don Roff
Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
~ Quinn Anderson
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
~ PJ Harvey
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.
~ Linden MacIntyre