Stories Quotes

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

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.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

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

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.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the movie starring Steve Martin.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

A novel means a new way of doing a story

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?