Stories Quotes - Page 157

I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.

My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first of all, and they have to tell the story so that their life depends upon it.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.