Stories Quotes

"The Notebook" is one of my favorite love stories.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.