Stories Quotes

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope.

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

The medium is secondary to the stories.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

One story sounds good until another is told

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.