Stories Quotes

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Show more interest in their story than your own.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

Every story you tell is your own story.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.