Stories Quotes

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.

So yo then man what's your story?

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.

I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I think we think in terms of stories.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

The human world is made of stories, not people.

People who know various movie versions don't really know the story.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.