Story Quotes

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.