Stories Quotes · Page 14

Another story must begin!

— Victor Hugo

My stories are character driven.

— Terry McMillan

All true stories end in death.

— Matthew Woodring Stover

All the stories are true

— Cassandra Clare

“Many stories magnify a fact.”

— Toba Beta

I have broken a lot of stories.

— Robert Scheer

I like my stories once removed.

— Terry Jones

People want real-life stories.

— Frank McCourt

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

— Brené Brown

You are the Hero of your own Story.

— Joseph Campbell

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

— Jim Butcher

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

— Douglas Coupland

We are the only animal that tells stories.

— John Landgraf

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

— Rupert Wyatt

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

— Walter Isaacson

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

— Paloma Faith

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

— Hideaki Anno

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

— Tracy Martin

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it…

— Bill Gosper

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was…

— Alan Cumming

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter…

— A. N. Wilson

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast…

— Will Estes

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary…

— Alan Ball

As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step…

— Ole Hallesby

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Everything’s been about the journey, I never really set out with goals for fighting; it’s been about the adventure along the way.…

— Evan Tanner

Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and…

— Tayari Jones

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that…

— Stephen Sondheim

His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted…

— Carlos Cuaron