Stories Quotes - Page 18

Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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.