Stories Quotes

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

We just don't want to repeat anything that we've done in the movies [X-man] or that we're going to do in the movies. There's so many stories to tell, we just want to stay out of each other's way.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

Disney's really incredible on story.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)

Story is what's most important.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.