Stories Quotes

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

I think that's something that Oprah [Winfrey] and Ava [ DuVernay] do seamlessly. They know how to connect to people and they know how to share our stories. To be a part of that is a blessing.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important to share, but often difficult to share at the same time.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there.

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.

I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes, and that's why video is important.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.