Story Quotes - page 86

The Esterhazy affair, thus, Mr. President, comes down to this: a guilty man is being passed off as innocent. For almost two months we have been following this nasty business hour by hour. I am being brief, for this is but the abridged version of a story whose sordid pages will some day be written out in full. (Émile Zola)
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me. View quote
Francine Pascal
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories. View quote
James Webb Young
Album covers are like any other vehicle, they are a means of illustrating a story. View quote
Peter Blake
When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters. View quote
Carson Grant
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. View quote
Len Wein
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. View quote
Len Wein
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. View quote
Len Wein
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story. View quote
Len Wein
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong. View quote
Len Wein
He produced, directed, processed and did everything to make the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra. Unlike most film makers of those days, Phalke did not have the westernized audience in mind. His vision was to use the medium to narrate an Indian story to the audience. (Dadasaheb Phalke)
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. "I haven't the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance. View quote
Luis Buñuel
I don't know that you can speak of shock ... Nothing is too shocking for me. I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. View quote
Roman Polański
I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. (Roman Polański)
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. View quote
Spike Lee
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. View quote
Spike Lee
I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it. View quote
Neil Strauss
Their minds befogged by fashionable nonsense about globalisation, western leaders believe liberal democracy is spreading unstoppably. The reality is continuing political diversity. Republics, empires, liberal and illiberal democracies, and a wide variety of authoritarian regimes will be with us for the foreseeable future. Globalisation is nothing more than the industrialisation of the planet, and increasing resource nationalism is an integral part of the process. (So is accelerating climate change, but that's another story.) As industrialisation spreads, countries that control natural resources use these resources to advance their strategic objectives. View quote
John N. Gray