Stories Quotes · Page 160

(The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".

— Anonymous

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

— Nicholas Sparks

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were…

— Janet Fitch

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in…

— Cameron Diaz

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of…

— Dave Morin

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

— Jason Ritter

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario…

— David A. Siegel

Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the…

— Paul Feig

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to…

— Manika

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our…

— Michael Swanwick

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of…

— Nolan Ryan

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy,…

— James A. Baldwin

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined…

— Naomi Watts

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors…

— Ken Loach

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which…

— Judi Dench

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who…

— George Harrison

...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin,…

— Samuel Beckett

The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production…

— Jose Padilha

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in…

— Christina Baldwin

Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such…

— Karin Tidbeck

Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see…

— David Carson

Showing myself nude from behind doesn't pose any problems but from the front that's another story. I don't want to lose all…

— Anonymous

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

— Conor McPherson

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

— Ben Mezrich

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

— William Devane

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

— Sandra Cisneros

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

— Gus Van Sant

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

— Peter Hedges

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you…

— Ray Bradbury

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

— Jeffery Deaver

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

— Jiang Wen

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

— Michael Gungor