Quotes of: Story Keyword

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Laura Linney

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

Louis Leakey

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

Lori Lesko

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Larry McMurtry

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Louis Malle

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Larry Niven

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Len Wein

I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

Madchen Amick

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

Michael Arrington

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships...

Margaret Atwood

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

Maeve Binchy

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Maeve Binchy

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

Meg Cabot

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Marie de France

I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.

Mini Grey

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Mary Hart

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Michael Haneke

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

Michel Hazanavicius

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Michael Keaton

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

Malcolm D. Lee