Stories Quotes

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

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.

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.

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

I like small stories.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

History depends on who is telling the story.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.