Stories Quotes

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound On The Moon" .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.

However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.