Stories Quotes

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

As time passes, my story fades away.

I think with something like Watchmen you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Find the stories that unite us

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.