Stories Quotes

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

We are surrounded by story.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

My stories are never quite good enough

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well