Stories Quotes

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

I don't take story input from fans.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

I always write a story in one sitting.

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated!

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

some stories don't need telling

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.