Stories Quotes · Page 127

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget…

— Lorene Scafaria

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take…

— Isak Dinesen

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the…

— Claude Lelouch

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked…

— Ed Sheeran

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

— Rudyard Kipling

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

— Blake Lively

"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go…

— Scott Snyder

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that…

— Isabel Allende

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the…

— Artie Lange

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream,…

— Dan Chaon

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I…

— Lea Michele

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the…

— Martin Amis

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales…

— Neil Gaiman

“All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better…

— Camron Wright

Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put…

— Ron Currie Jr

The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,…

— Keanu Reeves

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the…

— Woodrow Wilson

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority…

— Deb Caletti

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each…

— Andrew Shue

“It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories…

— Keith Donohue

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

— Albert Einstein

“Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.”

— Amit Kalantri

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories.

— Bill de Blasio

“The never-ending stream-of-consciousness stories planted the seed or God or faith or my dysfunctional family of loving parents.”

— Abigail George

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

— Cathy Freeman

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt