Top 1200 Good Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

I have two parents who are brilliant storytellers. The art of developing a story and nurturing a story was present in my household from the day I was born.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

The easiest story to sell is the story we want to buy.

Every story you tell is your own story.

I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it part of my life. I usually can't write lyrics down, but I can sure tell that story. You've got to make people feel the hurt and love in each song.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

Every real story is a never ending story.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.