Story Quotes

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

It's always the story that interests me.

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.

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.