Stories Quotes

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.

[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

The meaning of the story is the story.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

I have some good stories yet to tell.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

Most nations have some type of creation story.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

The best defense is a good story.

I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.

We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.