Stories Quotes - Page 196

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this is just the appetizer to the feast, and if we can plug into that and understand that this part of our story is just the introduction, it is not even the first line of the first paragraph, it's just the first letter or first word. We are just getting started.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, let’s get one thing out of the way. I know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you won’t be able to concentrate on anything else I will tell you. My name is Jubilee Dougal. Take a moment and let it sink in.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.