Stories Quotes - Page 246

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.