Stories Quotes

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Every story has its demands.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

Every project starts with a story.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.

Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate deeper like, you know - things and stuff.

You're more than a story.

I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.