Story Quotes - page 98

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person. (Michael Hyatt)
Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden. View quote
Mac Barnett
I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age. View quote
Marie Lu
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. View quote
Marian Keyes
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. View quote
Mario Puzo
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. View quote
Marion Cotillard
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director. View quote
Marion Cotillard
Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different. View quote
Marion Cotillard
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time. View quote
Marissa Meyer
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. View quote
Marie Corelli
Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television. (Maria Semple)
The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that. View quote
Mark Lawrence
The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement. View quote
Marc Randolph
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that. View quote
Markus Zusak
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another. View quote
Marcus Sedgwick
God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel! View quote
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right. View quote
Martin McDonagh
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude. View quote
Martin McDonagh
People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed. (Martina Cole)
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals. View quote
Matt Groening
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born! View quote
Meg Cabot
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. View quote
Meg Cabot
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. View quote
Meg Cabot