Story Quotes

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

It's cool to tell a real story.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.