Stories Quotes

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

I'm always going to have a story to tell.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.

Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

There are no facts, only stories.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.