Stories Quotes

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

A really good horror film has a story.

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.