Stories Quotes · Page 108

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

— Leo Buscaglia

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

— Leo Tolstoy

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

— Seymour Hersh

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you…

— Sylvia Plath

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

— Lewis Carroll

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

Britannia High' is not for three-year-old kids. There are emotional stories in it that are not for little children.

— Arlene Phillips

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where…

— Joss Whedon

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your…

— Anne Lamott

I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories…

— Angelina Jolie

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects…

— Roger Ross Williams

In the end, the truth always wins out. It always does, no matter how many times you tell a story that isn't…

— Gayle King

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's…

— Helen Van Slyke

Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it.…

— Vaclav Smil

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no…

— Isabel Allende

A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that…

— Robert M. Price

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to…

— Jennifer Weiner

That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So…

— John Shelby Spong

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…

— Gene Wolfe

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…

— Nathan Myhrvold

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.…

— Donald Miller

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than…

— Philippa Perry

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

— Charles Kuralt

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

— Jean Houston

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

— Carlos Saldanha

The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.

— Susan Tedeschi

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.”

— John Joseph Adams

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

— Frank Spotnitz

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

— Primo Levi

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

— Margaret Atwood

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

— Ambrose Bierce

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

— Lemon Andersen

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will…

— Ed Sabol