Stories Quotes

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

All we have is the story we tell.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

I don't know anything about the business side, but I know it's a very, very expensive decision to make, to put production on hold to make the story as good as possible.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.