Story Sequence Quotes

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

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

But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne, ' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.

'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.

If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to do that, it's really hard not to begin at the beginning. There's such a chain of consequence to everything that happens to main characters - it's very hard to break it apart and still be able to hold the plot in your head.

To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.