Stories Quotes · Page 122

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

— Ouida

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

— Robert McKee

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

— Joseph Addison

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

— Galcher Lustwerk

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

— Richard Ayoade

But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

— William Butler Yeats

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

— Jeff Daniels

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every…

— Alice Hoffman

We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal…

— Noah Hawley

I don't really have a place where people can reach me via email because it got a little overwhelming. People tweet things…

— Lena Dunham

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story,…

— Josh Hutcherson

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But…

— Charles Eisenstein

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind…

— Brian Evenson

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore…

— Soledad O'Brien

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two…

— Ang Lee

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is…

— Beau Willimon

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In…

— Rod Serling

I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been…

— Geoff Ryman

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that…

— Brian Jacques

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's…

— Harlan Coben

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So…

— Leah Stewart

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

— Joel Stein

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the…

— Lara Flynn Boyle

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

— Adam Richman

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

— Aaliyah

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

— Chelsea Manning

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

— Vincente Minnelli

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.

— Melissa Febos

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

— Robert Breault

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

— Debra Granik

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first…

— Wally Lamb

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the…

— John Updike

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

— Anonymous

In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.

— Donald E. Westlake