Stories Quotes

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer

Joe Biden once again denied stories that he will be replaced on the ticket in 2012. He says he will continue to embarrass President Obama for another four years.

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

Changing the story until you believe it.

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.