Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see...

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then...

I’ve dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen.

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, ‘Will & Grace’ started up.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.

Because, little girl, this is the real world you see, where there’s nolight to shine on false identities. We didn’t destroy the world just to scare; we simply uncovered what was already there. What has...

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man’s life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might,...

This is my story. I don’t know where I’m going, but I know I’m going somewhere beautiful, and I know I’m on my way… It’s been a beautiful adventure. It always will be.

I can’t tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding...

With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It’s just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.

A director shouldn’t get in the way of the movie, the story should.

social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.

…I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story....

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don’t normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set...

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what’s really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as...

I want to make sure people know I don’t think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

Sometimes it’s not just your favorite song. It’s your untold story.

Physics is the story of the universe, with everything or nothing.

I wouldn’t compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don’t feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people’s story. I don’t...

It’s the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

I think there’s a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we’re drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone’s laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they’re all laughing...

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today’s writing falls into the first category.

‘Mr Selfridge’ is a lot more accessible than shows like ‘Downton.’ Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof,...

The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their...

Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

As long as they talk about you, you’re not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn’t die, just because the man dies.

To me, the word ‘hero’ hasn’t got positive or negative value – ‘hero’ is the person who leads you through the story.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

A brief, well-crafted story that is relevant to your topic is one of the most potent ways to maintain the attention of your audience. But the story must be kind. Benjamin Disraeli said: “Never tell...

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important – where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the...

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed...

Watch out, or I’m liable to put you in a story.

Just because they’re a story doesn’t mean they’re not real.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!

„Anticarul nu pierdu ocazia să-i relateze pe larg cum venise Georgeoiu înt ia oară la Capșa în căutarea poetului, știind că acesta trecea zilnic pe-acolo, trebuia să semneze un contract important. Era seara, pe la...