Stories Quotes - Page 141

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.