Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories we’ve never told. Some African tribes believe if you were...

In the case of ‘Blood Stone,’ the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in,...

What I’ve realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it’s very...

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

My story is a sad and lonely one, and beautiful and lively and joyful. It’s not perfect; it is what it is.This is a story.But it is not a fairytale.

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people’s defenses.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.

I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can’t say, ‘Excuse me, boo,’...

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument…and the occasional bar fight.

I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself—of how deep my...

From the beginning, the series has been story driven – I began with a story idea – but research feeds it.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds

I didn’t find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it’s actually the opposite when you’re an actor. You’re telling somebody else’s story.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Everyone has a story.

Kentucky has always said you can’t really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it’s a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to...

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion…Life on its own, without art to shape it,...

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that...

A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I’ve always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story’s larger rhythms,...

Remember:It’s all in your head… all of it.If you don’t like the story, change it.If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them.

And if you’re a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it’s not great, then you’re not going to believe in the golf story, you’re not going to believe in...

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don’t they?

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth — yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes...

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have – a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

Depending on the story that you’re telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody’s story.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining...

Brooke might tell a different story, but I’ve always loved the water.

When you direct a movie, you’re basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director’s vision, and I’m totally open for that.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying “Beautiful Story”.

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.

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and...

I’m very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning’s story, the army intelligence officer who’s being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is...

I can’t honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life...

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the precise moment that a buyer needs it.Search, a marketing method that didn’t exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and...

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much… and it flows. I’ve tried to go in that direction.

A good story will keep you wondering about what’s happening, what’s going on, where does this go? Now it’s going to go that way, now it’s going to go that way. It has to do...

Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

I see myself as a story teller.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!