Stories Quotes · Page 142

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the…

— Ti West

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

— Anonymous

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the…

— Rick Remender

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

— Lionel Richie

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

— Marilyn vos Savant

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track…

— Michael Hastings

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

— Mark Strand

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on…

— Marisa Silver

The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a…

— K. M. Soehnlein

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago,…

— Andrew Lam

I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and…

— Erica Jong

Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped…

— Simon Winchester

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna…

— Guillermo del Toro

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That…

— Anderson Silva

My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.…

— Manny Pacquiao

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent…

— Anonymous

“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been…

— Neil Gaiman

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and…

— Kendrick Lamar

Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as…

— Christopher Nolan

I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I…

— Natalie Goldberg

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

— Laura Fraser

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

— Robert McKee

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

— Yahoo Serious

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I did not get out, and all I had to do was tell myself stories and get invested, and I've never gone…

— Ethel Cain

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

— James P. Hoffa

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

— Mark Sheppard

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

— Scott Turow

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish.

— Kelly Brook

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

— Dorothy Parker

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

— Plato

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming…

— Francesca Lia Block