Story Quotes

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

Everyone has a story.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.