“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” ("Things needing to be changed")” LoveHardCareChangeImaginationGenuineDullLazinessActBarrenDesolateStorylineEndearingInsipidTediumJamesModus OperandiSafeguardTriteLife CourseLoss Of InterestSame ProcedureThreadbareTip Over Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Today’s headlines need not be tomorrow’s storyline.” DifferentChangeDestinyFateOpportunitiesPossibilitiesHeadlinesTransformStoryline Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.” CreativityTalentCreationDevilMadnessInnovationImpulseWriterPlotWritersMuseTalentsMichael Bassey JohnsonStorylineDivergenceMental DiscoveriesEvery WriterImpulsionThe Life Of The Writer Author:Michael Bassey Johnson
“When we feel out of sync with the priorities of real life and overwhelmed by impossible dreams, we must retrace the essential fragments of our storyline hidden in the shadow of our past. They can guide our further thoughts, actions, and behaviors, ("Camera obscura of the mind")” PastThoughtsStorylineCamera Obscura Of The MindFeel Out Of Sync Author:Erik Pevernagie
“I was feeling the rage of a writer with a broken plot. Hell hath no fury like a memoirist whose husband just fucked up her story.” WritingBetrayalMemoirWriterPlotInfidelityStorylineMarriage Problems Book:Untamed Source: Untamed
“Our stories have already been written only we are not the author. We have no way of knowing what is coming or even how our final chapter will end. We handle our storylines the best way we know how as they present themselves. All we can do is try to leave our marks along the way, our legacy.” StoriesHistoryWrittenLegacyAuthorLegendStorylineChapterOur StoryUnknown Quote Author:Nyki Mack
“Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.” ShowsGamesEnjoyEnemyTvsGoogleThronesTv ShowsSpoilStoryline Author:Richard Madden
“I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.” StillsSchoolGoalNew YorkHigh SchoolAccomplishedNew York TimesStoryline Author:Donald Miller
“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.” ThinkingMenWorldWritingKindCharacterWould BeActorsEnjoyInterestingDealsMalesTendenciesReally InterestingInteresting CharactersStoryline Author:Elisabeth Moss
“Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.” CharacterStoriesInvolvedPlotStoryline Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
“It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.” WorldNiceVillainStoryline Author:Donal Logue
“I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.” StatesStoriesInterestingComfortableStorylineInteresting Stories Author:Katheryn Winnick
“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.” ThinkingWritingArtInspirationFallNovelPiecesInfluenceTaughtSceneArt IsFlowMoodScoreEchoesBleedingInterconnectedWriting MusicRise And FallStoryline Author:Charles de Lint
“I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.” WritingReasonStoriesHappensOrderCoursesComfortableDown AndContractsScreenplaysStoryline Author:William Gibson
“I did not know there was any controversy. I don't get a lot of time to read the fan forums, etc. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to have more storylines. I was just so happy to step in and pick up some of the slack for Emily while she was pregnant. It was so important for Emily to concentrate on her health and the well-being of her baby. In the end ... she is a great mother and her baby is adorable. I did not realize there was any controversy. LOL!” KnowsWellsImportantEndsMotherOpportunityRealizingStepsFansBabyPicksWell BeingEtcPregnantControversyAdorableEmilyForumsStorylineGreat MotherWere Pregnant Author:Eva LaRue
“ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.” CharacterFantasyGenreEpicSweepingStorylinePersonal CharacterBen Hur Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.” TwoOne TimeParallelsStorylineSwitchingFlashback Author:Emma Thompson
“I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.” IfsStoriesNegativeChosenInsaneWorriedControversialStorylineChosen One Author:Ndamukong Suh
“Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when they come up to you and are like, 'That storyline is amazing and really spoke to me in my life,' and it's really cool. I really enjoy it.” ShowsEnjoyFansTelevisionCome UpSpokesUp To YouReally CoolNeatTelevision ShowsStoryline Author:Shantel VanSanten
“I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.” SaidBookDifferentDoneFilmMovingCasesNovelFansWindPagesPicksPressureOriginalsAddFaithfulPlotTapeImmenseThreadAdaptationDisappointDetoursStorylineTime To KillKeep It Moving Author:Alexander Payne
“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.” KindCharacterFilmNightCultureWatchesImagineImpossibleStrangeReflectionDepressingSomewhere ElseInexplicableStorylineAmerican Film Author:Timur Bekmambetov
“I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.” GivenMy OwnDwarfsStoryline Author:Dave Sim
“Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.” PeopleHardShowsCasesStruggleExampleColdAspectMedicalEpisodesDeafStorylineDeafnessImplantsCold Case Author:Sean Berdy
“I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.” TogetherIndividualExistenceEconomicAuthorityEvidenceConnectionsRelationInstanceDeceptionOfficialsGlobal WarmingFraudSchemesArtificeStorylineDraftingProsecutingMemorandum Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.” WorldWellsSocialBehindsMagicMovementSceneGainsTrainGlassesAriseRangeClassicRitualSweatBalletOperaNarcissismExclusiveEntryTranscendentBehind The ScenesFlawlessInsidersStorylineShort Lived Author:Maureen Corrigan
“But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.” IfsThinkingYearsIdeasFatherStudyClearFocusJourneyTeamSubjectsPrayingOkayScriptureGods WillFatherhoodFittingStorylineGod Will ProvideClear Direction Author:Stephen Kendrick
“Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.” TryingCharacterHoursLinesStageDevelopmentStandingPlotCharacter DevelopmentStorylinePlot Lines Author:Jim Jefferies
“The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.” RealSeemsMightSimpleNovelDirectReal LifeLife ExperienceCorrelationStorylineReal Life Experiences Author:Ayana Mathis
“Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like to write a game where your character can follow any number of possible story arcs and sub-plots.” WantWritingRealMatterCharacterStoriesGamesNumbersNo Matter WhatFollowingWhat You WantConclusionPlotArcsRailroadsStoryline Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.” FirstsDirectorsCreatingStoryline Author:Shane Dawson
“We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity.” PeopleWarMediaMastersNarrativeControlledVietnamImageryVietnam WarTenacityStorylineViet Cong Author:Anne Waldman
“If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."” IfsMenLittlesCharacterBigsFunnyComedyConnectionsObviousParksAmusementRoller CoasterCoastersStorylineObvious ThingsAmusement Parks Author:Brian Regan
“If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.” IfsMenWritingChildrenLittlesBookStoriesChallengesSituationMillionsSatisfactionAccidentsFamiliarFreakPredictableStorylineStepmothers Author:Jillian Medoff
“I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.” ThinkingKnowsWantShouldHumansHeartKindDifferentRealSometimesPainHurtAcceptingKnowingGraceCaughtUglyValuablePeacefulFrustrationCaught UpHuman ExperienceWant HimSusceptibleStorylinePeaceful HeartAccepting What Is Author:Sara Bareilles
“People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.” PeopleWayMadeCharacterShowsLightDarkSawsMade ItFilesDark PlacesStorylineX FilesScully Author:Chris Carter
“I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.” DonePastFilmSexDifferencesSceneAdultsDrivenNarrativeStorylineGonzoVignettes Author:Sasha Grey
“At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.” WorldWritingYearsTwoCharacterCertainStrongWorryNovelWrittenThis WorldProjectsResearchCastsCome UpBiasEngagingStoryline Author:Neal Stephenson
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.” PeopleTryingWellsLooksPersonsSoulWholeCharacterFactsStoriesMovingSecretDestinyGreaterMysteryDeeperWhole LifeCoreI've LearnedPenetrateArcsInevitabilityStorylineToo Deep Author:Sandra Scofield
“My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.” BookStoriesShowsSeemsRunningReadingChaosHungerCurrentsConnectedAttractionStorylineArdorTumbling Author:Pat Conroy
“When you have a show that's called Jessica Jones, if Jessica Jones isn't in a scene the rest of it become almost irrelevant until you earn other character storylines. You've got to flesh out those characters enough that you can travel.” IfsEnoughCharacterShowsSceneFleshIrrelevantJessicaStorylineJessica Jones Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.” ThinkingCharacterBigsActorsDetailsBig PictureStorylineMinutiaeSmall Details Author:Richard Dormer
“The real challenge is to give a really nuanced performance and really push myself, to make sure that we see a very complete picture of a woman living with Asperger's. Of course, I'm always intrigued. I learn so much from the show about storylines that actually happen on the border.” GivingRealShowsHappensCoursesChallengesPerformancesBordersIntriguedStorylineAspergers Author:Diane Kruger
“And other people get the opportunity to leave prison, and then they do something to get put back in there because they can't actually function in society. It's really cool because you get to see all these different women, their backstories, where they come from, their upbringing and why they get to where they get to, and they're all completely different. It's really cool that you get to see all those storylines.” PeopleDifferentOpportunityFunctionPrisonReally CoolUpbringingStoryline Author:Laura Prepon
“I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future.” ThinkingCharacterUniverseOrdinaryIntriguedStorylineBackdrop Author:John Noble
“You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.” MomentsStoriesEffectsEmotionalTrainDrivingOverwhelmedGet RealYour MomStoryline Author:J.H. Wyman
“We had some ups and downs, creatively, as the season went on, which is true of any show. If you compound that by the production that we go through, in terms of original songwriting and recordings, and all that is happening simultaneously, where we didn't do as good a job, as I hope we do this year, is the arcing of the storylines and the consistency of going in one direction with a character, and continuing in a really interesting way with that arc.” IfsWayYearsCharacterShowsJobsTermInterestingHappeningsSeasonsOriginalsProductionsSongwritingContinuingConsistencyReally InterestingUps & DownsCompoundsArcsOne DirectionStorylineInteresting Ways Author:Robert Greenblatt
“I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.” ThinkingWantSpecialSpecial PlacesPremiumStorylineHboShowtime Author:Ben Schwartz
“The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.” WantWritingKindI CanPlayStoriesFilmSeeingFansTelevisionHugeContinuingStoryline Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“Yeah, you can explore a lot more. Every one of the storylines is multi-faceted, so there are so many directions that it can go. It makes each episode so interesting.” InterestingYeahEpisodesStoryline Author:Mireille Enos
“It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.” RealStoriesFunCausesJokesHeavyPopsAwfulQuestsLiftingSceneryStorylineHeavy Lifting Author:Justin Theroux