Stories Quotes
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.
To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.