Stories Quotes

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I write in Arabic and prefer writing my stories by hand. I need a cup of tea or coffee when I write. When I was in Syria, I was addicted to tea, but now I'm addicted to Starbucks.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.