Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Erickson

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

Val McDermid

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

Val Kilmer

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Tucker Max

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

Susan Wiggs

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Taron Egerton

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

Stephen King

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Stephen King

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Stephen King

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Stephen King

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stephen King

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Stephen King

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

Stephen King

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Stephen King

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stanley Tucci

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Starhawk

Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

Stan Lee

When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

Thomas Carlyle

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Tony Hsieh

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Tom Savini

My favorite movies are love stories.

Steven Spielberg

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Steven Spielberg

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

Steven Heighton

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Stanley Crouch

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Simon Cowell

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

Shirley Jackson

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shepard Smith

I like stories that affect families.

Shami Chakrabarti

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

Sergio Aragones

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Pope Francis

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.