Stories Quotes · Page 137

We've been watching and listening to the same stories since the beginning of time - and we love them.

— Quinta Brunson

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think…

— Jess Walter

“We need to interrupt any stories that are not in alignment with what we're doing.”

— Elena Aguilar

I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to…

— Jenni Rivera

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

— William Devane

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

— Sandra Cisneros

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater

The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to…

— Naomi Wolf

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a…

— Hannibal Buress

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap…

— Ed Zern

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past…

— Cressida Cowell

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as…

— Winifred Holtby

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are…

— Michelle Monaghan

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants…

— John Cusack

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so…

— Jonathan Carroll

That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things…

— Edward Hirsch

[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet…

— Rush Limbaugh

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored…

— Gloria Steinem

“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other…

— Gilles Deleuze

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

— Peter Hedges

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

— Gus Van Sant

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you…

— Ray Bradbury

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

— Jiang Wen

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

— Sylvia Day

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

— Michael Gungor

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars…

— Maya Angelou

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

— Ray Bradbury

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

— Ryan Tedder

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

— Desmond Child

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

— L. J. Smith

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.

— Emil Ludwig

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the…

— Michelle Richmond