Stories Quotes

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

You can never know enough about your characters

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.