Stories Quotes · Page 138

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

— Arthur C. Clarke

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending,…

— Frances Hardinge

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

— Carl Reiner

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your…

— David Levithan

“That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.

— Travis Mathews

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth.…

— Nas

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a…

— Sara Pennypacker

My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early…

— Elizabeth Warren

Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes…

— Dejan Stojanovic

In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Where do stories come from?” He asked. “I capture them in a wicker basket as they flutter through the night sky,” I…

— Chad B Hanson

Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but…

— Arianna Huffington

Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to…

— John Green

I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her.…

— Stan Lee

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother…

— George Best

Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story…

— Louis Sachar

When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but…

— Gail Carson Levine

In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.…

— Joe Meno

“One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually…

— David Whyte

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read,…

— Isaac Asimov

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

— Alexandra Adornetto

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

— Shane Koyczan

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

— Jill Tarter

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

— Clifford D. Simak

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.

— Sheila Nevins

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free…

— Andy Stanley

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

— Ray J

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

— Michael J. Jackson

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

— Wes Moore

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret