Stories Quotes

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

Every seed has a story.

You can't pack everything into every single story.

We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

Every movie is a love story.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.