Stories Quotes - Page 29

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.