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Quotes About Story

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
~ Walton Goggins
There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.
~ Gary Crowley
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
~ Kirk Douglas
When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
~ Questlove
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
~ Hideaki Anno
Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.
~ Robert McKee
The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
~ Alfred de Vigny
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
~ Oliver North
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.
~ Sam Levenson
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
~ Chester Himes
Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
~ Benjamin Zander
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.
~ Maya Angelou
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.
~ Olivia Munn
All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.
~ Richard Hammond
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
~ Simone Weil
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
~ Jay-Z
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
~ Aidan Chambers
Youve got to live life to write a book about it.
~ Andy Williams
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
~ Edna O'Brien