Stories Quotes

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

What are we but our stories?

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

Every woman has a story.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

The best stories infuse wonder.