Quotes of: Story Keyword

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Ray Bradbury

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Rachel Cusk

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Richard Ford

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Robert Harris

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

Rebecca De Mornay

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Seth Grahame-Smith

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Shon Mehta

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories

Suman Pokhrel

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Salman Rushdie

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

Saoirse Ronan

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

Stephen Sondheim

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.

Sophie Winkleman

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

Taissa Farmiga