Stories Quotes
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.
Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.