Stories Quotes · Page 146

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

— Dorothy Parker

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

— Annie Leonard

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

— Marshall Ganz

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

— Amy Ryan

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest…

— Max Lucado

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

— Ray Bradbury

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

— Karen Russell

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed…

— Debra Dean

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always…

— Maynard James Keenan

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,…

— Bruce Springsteen

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just…

— Nigel Cole

Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -…

— Bill Kurtis

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace…

— Colleen Atwood

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured…

— Karen Abbott

History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.…

— Richard Lewontin

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to…

— Daniel Craig

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the…

— Graham Cray

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world…

— Michael Pollan

Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are…

— Pietra Brettkelly

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but…

— Elie Wiesel

“Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.”

— Matthew D. Lieberman

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

— Michael Shermer

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

— Rainbow Rowell

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

— Emma Bell

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

— Erwin Knoll

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and…

— Janet Evanovich

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

— Christopher Meloni

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

— John Lewis

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

— Philip Yancey

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

— Anonymous

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

— Mary J. Blige

“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.”

— E.J. Patten

“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

— Elle Varner