Stories Quotes · Page 129

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

— Patricia Hampl

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

— Raymond Carver

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and…

— John Steinbeck

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

— Elie Wiesel

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were…

— Eric D. Huntsman

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's…

— Zooey Deschanel

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest…

— Rita Zahara

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not…

— Daniel B. Shapiro

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and…

— Polly Toynbee

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to…

— Rebecca Solnit

I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I…

— Trina Robbins

It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of…

— Sasa Stanisic

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's…

— Orhan Pamuk

The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a…

— John Howard

What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell…

— Felicia Day

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the…

— Charles J. Shields

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the…

— Anonymous

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a…

— William P. Young

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to…

— Ann Curry

I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one…

— Liz W. Garcia

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

— Charlyne Yi

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

— Rick Reilly

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

— Hedda Hopper

“If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be…

— Ellen J. Barrier

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has…

— David Pajo

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the…

— Daniel Handler

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

— Louie Giglio

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

— Hope Davis

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story…

— Robert Jastrow

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes…

— Ewan McGregor

The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

— George Jackson

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as…

— Paul Auster

“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.”

— John Crowley