Stories Quotes

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

So many stories are determined before they start.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Where there is humility, there is no story.

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.