Top 100 Story Lines Quotes
#1. I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
Chris Roberson
#2. As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.
Molly O'Keefe
#4. Many internal story lines are not rooted in our basic sanity or wisdom, but rather in our confusion.
Lodro Rinzler
#5. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing
David Hasselhoff
#6. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.
Lee Child
#7. I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.
Gabriel Mann
#8. In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.
Nicholas Lemann
#9. There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.
Beverly Lewis
#10. I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.
Janet Evanovich
#11. It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
Linda McMahon
#12. All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed.
Benjamin R. Barber
#14. I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.
Molly O'Keefe
#15. Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
Ron Fournier
#16. Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
Tina Fey
#17. Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
Harmony Korine
#18. Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.
Dennis Franz
#19. When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.
Anne Sweeney
#20. I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
Spike Lee
#21. I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.
Kurt Browning
#22. If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Maynard James Keenan
#23. The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
Pema Chodron
#24. I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.
Ryan Coogler
#25. Stephen King is not a guy who keeps secrets the same goes and for Jeffery Deaver. But Jeffery Deaver creates characters and plays with them, Stephen King knows with who is playing, Jeffery Deaver just goes as how will happen, I think that and he doesn't know where the story lines will go.
Deyth Banger
#26. Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
Jason Katims
#27. As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
C.J. Box
#28. 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
Caitriona Balfe
#29. 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
Jo Nesbo
#30. 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.
Andrew Rannells
#31. The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.
Michael Storm
#32. It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#33. I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.
Flannery O'Connor
#34. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose
#35. My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.
Ruta Sepetys
#37. I didn't know who I was or what I was until I transformed into some mere words on an unscathed sheet, some lines pressed between the cobwebs of a turbulence, a love story.
Prachi Prangya Agasti
#38. You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.
Christopher Moore
#39. I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
Mark Billingham
#40. We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.
J.R. Rim
#41. Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.
Marion Dane Bauer
#42. As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going before you even start to get there. And that's a hard audience to keep interested.
Betty White
#43. The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
Amit Kalantri
#44. I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.
Elizabeth Stone
#45. You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.
Lisa Loeb
#46. My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
Edward Abbey
#47. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.
Amit Kalantri
#48. You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.
Victor Levin
#49. It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.
Nicky Oppenheimer
#50. And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.
Hanya Yanagihara
#52. The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
Howard Nemerov
#53. Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
Matisyahu
#54. To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.
Sara Sheridan
#55. On Salem's Lot: " My favorite vampire story ever. I first read this 20 years ago, and I can still quote lines from it.
"You have been ill-used, Mr Bryant."
"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher."
"The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
Fuck twilight. Seriously ...
Jay Kristoff
#56. All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
Brandi Carlile
#57. It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.
Carol Anshaw
#58. We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
Bill Irwin
#59. For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.
James Vance
#60. In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you.
Amit Kalantri
#61. Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#62. Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They're in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story's not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Jodi Picoult
#63. Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.
Amit Kalantri
#64. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?
Amit Kalantri
#65. We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
Pema Chodron
#66. If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.
Amit Kalantri
#67. If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.
Amit Kalantri
#68. Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Irving Stone
#70. The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
Alistair Begg
#71. When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
Robert McKee
#72. I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.
Amit Kalantri
#73. Some people skim life and some people read so closely they see the things others don't. That's where the beauty lies, in between the lines, in the details. The story within the story.
Kim Holden
#74. Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.
Jonathan Gottschall
#75. Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. Photographs tell a story," Alison mutters. "But people forget to read between the lines.
A.G. Howard
#77. Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger.
This is the story of how we got there.
Fredrik Backman
#78. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
William Devane
#79. My story! Didn't you know? I was the poor stupid groom who was jilted at the altar."
These Lines of Mehendi
Sumeetha Manikandan
#80. There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.
Dan Scanlon
#81. So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too mean and petty to be called tragedy, but tragic for all that.
Mary Stewart
#82. I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
Cass McCombs
#83. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
Janet Fitch
#84. I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
Charles Kuralt
#86. There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
Joe Sacco
#87. you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.
you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.
there are no lines
that can hold you.
there are not enough words
for all the more that you are.
AVA.
#88. What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
Sydney Pollack
#89. The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.
Amit Kalantri
#90. The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.
Darin Strauss
#91. Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.
Margo Lanagan
#92. Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.
F.K. Preston
#94. Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
Jodi Picoult
#95. I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.
Lynn Cullen
#96. I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.
Kat Von D.
#97. The Glory Is Always Hidden Between The Lines Of the Story
Sujit Lalwani
#98. One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
Margaret Kennedy
#99. To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
Lamar Alexander
#100. We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.
Joachim Trier
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