Stories Quotes

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I told my whole life story in my book.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

We are creatures of story.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.