Stories Quotes

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to feel like a fly on the wall and hear about people's lives.

Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush's story yielded no tangible dividends.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.