Stories Quotes - Page 135

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.