Stories Quotes

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, 'Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Sometimes that happens when people don't really know how long they're going to have to stretch their story out for.

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Love is who we are without our stories.

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

People love stories. They need stories.