Stories Quotes

One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

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

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.