Stories Quotes

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesnt worry me personally all that much.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.

See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.