J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

As one tale ends, so another begins.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.