Stories Quotes

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

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.

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

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

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

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Stories are a different kind of true.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.