Stories Quotes

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.