Quotes of: Story Keyword

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

When You Were Here

What's a wingding? Why, a wingding is, uh...it's just like a shindig but without all the hullabaloo.

A Whole Nother Story

Voice is really about letting your characters loose.

Writing the Heart of Your Story

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Zoli

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story.

Alex Pettyfer

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

Cheri Bustos

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

Caitlin Flanagan

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.

Ezra Klein

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

Helen Mirren

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

J. Michael Straczynski

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Mark Haddon

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Philip Reeve

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Tobias Wolff

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Lee Child

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

Mike Nichols

If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now :)

Nehali Lalwani

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

Jim Woodring

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

Nic Pizzolatto