Stories Quotes · Page 143

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

— Jacqueline Carey

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

— Tim O'Brien

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy

— Rick Riordan

“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories.”

— Brian Morton

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

— Dorothy Allison

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

— Hedi Slimane

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one…

— Eric Lefkofsky

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an…

— Danny DeVito

Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative…

— John H Richardson

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…

— Lev Grossman

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and…

— Meridel Le Sueur

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign…

— Anonymous

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies.…

— Nick Denton

Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a…

— Richard Beymer

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve…

— Angelina Jolie

“There's no point in making up a world, Elisabeth said, when there's already a real world, There's just the world, and there's…

— Ali Smith

I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked…

— Harold B. Lee

What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our…

— Barack Obama

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but…

— Tobin Bell

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8.…

— Ellen Potter

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to…

— John Green

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

— Sasha Alexander

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

— Oscar Levant

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not…

— Jens Lekman

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

— Francesca Gregorini

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

— Jeanette Winterson

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

— Stephen King

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

— Charlie Rowe

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

— Des MacHale

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

— Angie Sage

“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.”

— Nadège Richards

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like…

— Elena Anaya

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

— Kevin Spacey

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

— John Patrick Shanley

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola