Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

Paul Reiser

The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

Scott Rudin

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

Seth Shostak

Narrator: Philoméne likes the sound of the cat's bowl on the tiles. The cat likes overhearing children's stories.

Amélie

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Richard Russo

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Albert Brooks

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

Anderson Cooper

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

Adam Driver

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Anita Desai

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Aminatta Forna

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Aleksandar Hemon

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

Amanda Hocking

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

Alice Hoffman

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Aisha Mirza

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alexander Payne

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

Anne Perry

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

Andrew Scott

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Andy Stanley

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

Ashley Williams