Stories Quotes · Page 128

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how…

— Joy Williams

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

— Esra Saydam

“He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about. You cannot trust him.” The”

— Pierce Brown

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

— Rachel Griffiths

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

— Robert Redford

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do…

— Anonymous

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

— Gretel Ehrlich

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have…

— Alan Moore

[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time…

— Desmond Dekker

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for…

— Uwe Boll

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for…

— Philip Pullman

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word…

— Adam Kirsch

While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being…

— Taylor Swift

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,…

— Anne Rice

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the…

— Thomas Ligotti

I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to…

— Claudia Rankine

Nobody who comes out of the movie [Aquarius] focuses on those [sexual] scenes, because they are not the heart of the film.…

— Sonia Braga

I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around…

— Kiersten White

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany…

— Gail Caldwell

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right…

— Taylor Swift

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

— Rachel Griffiths

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Nicholas Sparks

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

— Ian MacKaye

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

— Scott Westerfeld

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

— Cesar Millan

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

— Hilary Duff

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

— Deepak Chopra

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

— Salman Rushdie

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

— Katherine Mansfield

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the…

— Ira Sachs

“As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.”

— Stephen King

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous