Quotes of: Story-lines Keyword

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

Nancy Gibbs

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Neil Gaiman

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Neil Gaiman

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Jordan

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

Nigel Kneale

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Neil LaBute

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

The Killick: A Newfoundland Story

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Stefano Tonchi

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Adam Baldwin

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Catherynne M. Valente

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

Casey Wilson

If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.

Anne Lamott

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Erin Morgenstern

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

The Origins Of History

I love to hear the story of how stars sacrifice their life to receive only one memorable kiss from the Earth.

Oceanic Heart

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

The One and Only Ivan

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

In the Woods

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Margaret Mahy

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Michael Leunig