Stories Quotes

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

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.

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

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

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.

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Everyone has a story.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

My friends have made the story of my life.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.