Storytelling Quote by Paul Cornell Download Open image ““Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.”” — Paul Cornell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings.” — Shirley Marr Copy Share Image
“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.” — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the… — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.” — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“The stories we can tell each other have no beginning and ending. They” — RachelNaomi Remen Copy Share Image
“I hope you come to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending…endings are heartless. An ending… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Black Knight: "I'm impressed. You even mended the t-shirt." Faiza: "Mate, you're with the NHS now.” — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“You hear stories like that all your life and think: cool, a ghost bus. But now we have to look at this stuff analytically... a ghost bus?! The “ghost” of a motor vehicle? A public conveyance, presumably, which didn't head towards the light, move on to join the choir invisible in... bus heaven, the great terminus in the sky, where… — Paul Cornell Copy Share
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever.… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning… — Paul Cornell Copy Share
I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does. — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“John the Skrull: (as Merlyn) "Here, listen. It's me, Merlyn, the magic man. There's no need for all this conflict, like. I command you… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“The neighbors... hadn't, thankfully, done the usual by saying that Losley was a pleasant neighbor who'd kept herself to herself. (Always delivered in a tone of voice that suggested that, since keeping oneself to oneself was the single greatest thing one English person could do for another, the suspect ought to be excused whatever psychopathic shit they'd visited on other… — Paul Cornell Copy Share
“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“Tara: So what does "Captain Britain's agent" actually do? Wisdom: Between you and me, Tara, it's work, work, work. I'm in charge of Brian's… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant. — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once." John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real me now." Captain Midlands: "I told him to… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image