Stories Quotes

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

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

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

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

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

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

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 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.

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.

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.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.