Stories Quotes

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

I'd just love to see the next Star Wars films when they come out because I'm very into the whole universe and the stories. So they're always rewarding.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

The hero is never the star of the story.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.