Best moving & stories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.”

Giving Feels Stories Able Moving Alive Give Me Lifetime Best Things

Author:Michael Sheen

“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Hard Stories Moving Fall Challenges Perfect Scene Projects Moving Forward Hard Times Continuing Traps Coping Perfectionism Rewriting Continuing On

Author:Laini Taylor

“If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.”

People Ifs Wells Stories Moving

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Mean Ideas Different Stories Moving Games Levels Violence Fine Scene Sake Make Sense Different Things Mechanic Different Levels

Author:David Cage

“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

Feels Should Two Character Stories Moving My Own Novel Cutting Crazy Information Emotional Huge Amount Scene Including Details Attachment Fades Chapters Manuscripts Less Is More Small Details

Author:Sarah Waters

“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.”

Kind Doe Stories Moving Asks Challenges Vision Roles Directors Etc

Author:Lukas Haas

“There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.”

Stories Moving Values

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.”

People Trying Moments Stories Moving Ready Projects Scripts Live In The Moment

Author:David Heyman

“A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story is the moment we cease to guard our sanctuary, and our entire foundation for success crumbles into ashes. A relationship that leads us closer to our Prince and carefully protects our inner sanctuary is the key to discovering romance as it was truly intended to be...a little taste of heaven on earth.”

Source: Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman

“Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.”

Heart Mean Stories Shows Moving Rooms Wonderful Sea Adventure Breaths Wicked Capture Crew Mice Thrilling Really Mean Pirate Caribbean

Author:Lynne Reid Banks

“A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.”

Stories Seems Moving Sun Wind Passing Passings Smoke Noses Bees Snakes Perfume

Book:The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of

“We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.”

Littles Facts Stories Moving Happened Kings Demand Narrative Cherish Acceptable Nonviolence Conventional Drs Disadvantages Soothing Resemblance

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

“These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.”

People Ifs Thinking Stories Moving Cutting Europe These Days Sensibility Fragmented

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.”

Ifs Moments Stories Moving

Author:Courteney Cox

“Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.”

Firsts Stories Moving Involved Make Sense Linear

Author:Zack Snyder

“We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.”

People World Littles Ideas Stories Moving Interesting Internet Phones Video Plot

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

Thinking Men Hard Stories Moving Men And Women Edges Gender Domain Androgyny

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.”

Years Stories Dream Moving Dies Turns Imagination Mom Years Ago Waking Your Mom Fruition

Author:Diana Nyad

“Read as much as you write. Go out and meet other writers. Look for stories in everything around you - music, movies, family, strangers, your bus ride to work, and of course the streets. Also - keep moving forward, keep creating new things. Leave evidence of yourself in this world. Imagine what your legacy could be and try to create it.”

“No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.”

“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.”

Giving Enough Stories Eye Moving Song Sleep Poor Needed Mets Eating Moved Folks Pity His Eyes Colour Ritual Legends Framework Tapestry Mating Bowels

Author:S.M. Stirling

“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.”

“Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.”

Thinking Way Humans Stories Moving Literature Human Beings Keys Letters Fingers Communicate Screens Loud Spells Translate Up And Down Telling Your Story

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.”

People Real Stories Shows Moving Fun Party Path Dancing Mood Seats Concerts Solo

Author:Pantha du Prince

“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Feels Heart Book Stories Moving Greater Written Seeing Reader Empathy Capacity Insightful Inches Revealing Darren Justine

Author:Nick Earls

“The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.”

People Stories Body Moving Stars Wonderful Car Design Casts Productions Accidents Movie Seats Expensive Plot Vehicle Motor Hood Luxurious Headlights Upholstery Expensive Cars

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.”

Thinking Knows World Trying Sometimes Stories Reality Seems Moving Term Quality Taken Goes On Mood Discovering

Author:Brian Evenson

“Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Stories Action Moving Leader Successful Clinton Great Leader Nelson Religion And Politics

Author:Peter Guber

“I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.”

Writing Heart Character Stories Moving

Author:Robert Crais

“Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.”

People Way Trying Littles Stories Film Moving Lines Simple Study Directors Paper Draws Bases Capture Animation Sketchbooks

Author:John Musker

“We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.”

People Thinking World Stories Moving Natural Visuals Illustration Natural Things Captivated

Author:Stan Lee

“I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.”

Children Book Ideas Stories Moving Found Novel Audience Series Eight Lots Of Money Publishers Completing

Author:John Boyne

“When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.”

Thinking Needs Writing Stories Moving Audience Laughing Information Emotional Sitting Edges Speed Screens Hopefully Seats Thread Weeping Sitting On The Edge

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.”

Ifs Stories Moving Willing Happy Endings

Author:Alan Cohen

“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”

Stories Bigs Moving Artist Break Poet Novelists Short Story Break Through Story Writers

Author:Gary Reilly

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