Stories Quotes

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

I like it when stories are left open.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming better, and it's about whatever story grabs hold of me.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Story is the language of the heart.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

Great stories move through fear.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.