Stories Quotes

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

A mystery is solved with a story.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

I started writing stories as a child.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.