Stories Quotes · Page 158

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

— David Lynch

“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me…

— Eudora Welty

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Marisa Tomei

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

— Aamir Khan

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

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

— Paul Newman

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

— Jonathan Evison

I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes.…

— Oliver North

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...…

— Nina Bawden

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and…

— Paulo Coelho

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

— Manohla Dargis

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a…

— James Patrick Kelly

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once…

— Igor Levit

Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only…

— Leslie Ludy

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an…

— Patti Scialfa

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the…

— Salman Rushdie

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring,…

— Margaret Atwood

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I…

— Samuel Fuller

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the…

— Michael Schultz

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all…

— Adam Ross

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist,…

— Tom Sizemore

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of…

— Chinua Achebe

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

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Saira Banu

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

— George Plimpton

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

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

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

— Tahir Shah

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

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

— Paddy Chayefsky

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

— Alden Ehrenreich

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Shannon L. Alder