Stories Quotes · Page 148

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

— Steven Spielberg

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.

— Morgan Spurlock

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

— Tove Lo

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

— Mark Twain

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

— Anonymous

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

— Jeffery Deaver

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

— Tim O'Reilly

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in…

— Haruki Murakami

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

— Joel Stein

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may…

— Anonymous

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside…

— Salman Rushdie

Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew…

— Earl Monroe

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from…

— Priscilla Presley

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of…

— Luanne Rice

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

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

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

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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this…

— Max Lucado

Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up…

— J. K. Rowling

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

— Sam Mendes

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about…

— Helen Humphreys

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

— Andrew Garfield

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

— Lawrence Watt-Evans

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the…

— Michael Schur

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

— Mitch Albom

The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

— Ami Vitale

“Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.”

— Leila Howland

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat…

— Peter Benchley

“Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't…

— Terry Moore

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

— Andy Stanley

“Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

— Edwidge Danticat

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

— Jared Leto