Stephen King Quotes

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

Story is what's most important.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

Literature is about telling stories.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.