Stories Quotes

Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Stories are medicine.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

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.

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

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

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?

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

I'll take any story if it's good.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.