Stories Quotes - Page 217

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.