Stories Quotes · Page 140

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

— Aamir Khan

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

— Marisa Tomei

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

— Warren Zevon

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

— Paul Newman

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story…

— Etgar Keret

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

— Anne McCaffrey

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that…

— John Lasseter

Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from…

— Woody Shaw

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be…

— Joey Skaggs

Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my…

— Shahad Ameen

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be…

— Dave Eggers

The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This…

— Billy Campbell

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the…

— Rick Remender

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every…

— Twyla Tharp

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible.…

— Joni Mitchell

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on…

— E. M. Forster

We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does…

— Bonnie Friedman

Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored…

— Rajneesh

I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these…

— Adam Savage

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows…

— Jenny Lawson

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

— Bruce Springsteen

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

— George Plimpton

I never minded stories of the beautiful women associated with Dilip saab. I had placed my entire trust in him.

— Saira Banu

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

— Anonymous

“Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.”

— Prex J.D.V. Ybasco

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

— Bryan Fuller

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

— Tahir Shah

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

— Craig L. Rice

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn…

— Philip Roth

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

— David Mitchell

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst,…

— Alden Ehrenreich

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings

— Paddy Chayefsky

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

— Sherman Alexie

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

— Carolyn Maloney