Stories Quotes - Page 23

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.

Another story must begin!

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

A great brand is a story that's never completely told.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.