Stories Quotes - Page 227

It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.