Stories Quotes · Page 125

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

— Anonymous

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

— Mason Cooley

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

— Andy Biersack

There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be…

— Nicky Gumbel

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

— Christopher Vogler

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

— Jane Smiley

“I had seen the world as either white or black. It is only when I read the pages of her diary that…

— Sanhita Baruah

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each…

— Hermann Hankel

It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong…

— John Dufresne

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there…

— Walt Disney

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is…

— Cecelia Ahern

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,…

— Neil Gaiman

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of…

— Kaskade

My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,…

— Cyrus Chestnut

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the…

— Marisha Pessl

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat,…

— Anonymous

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,'…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.

— Tapani Bagge

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still…

— Karl Lagerfeld

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

— Richard Dreyfuss

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…

— Kevin Durant

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

— Dan B. Allender

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

— Richard Bach

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

— Tim O'Brien

“Isabel never tired of Esperanza’s stories about her previous life. Esperanza”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

— Jussie Smollett

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

— James Nicoll

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo