Stories Quotes · Page 165

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

— John Green

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

— Lauren Conrad

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

— Brené Brown

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

— Hermann Hesse

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

— Orson Scott Card

“Some stories don’t make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers… sure. But there’s some feelings you can’t put on a screen.”

— Damon Suede

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a…

— PJ Harvey

“Stories, news, past heartbreak, future happiness, all of these were to be shared by the person at the center of the tale.”

— Ellen Herrick

Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's…

— Rick Remender

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much…

— Jason Momoa

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last…

— Anonymous

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,…

— Steve McCurry

I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was,…

— Kim Cattrall

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we…

— Ben Okri

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow…

— Richard Paul Evans

And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room.…

— Alice Sebold

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where…

— Gail Carson Levine

Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245…

— Quentin Tarantino

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and…

— Mark Kurlansky

Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the…

— Carlos Barrios

All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of…

— Andrew Lam

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did…

— Will Eisner

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

— Annie Proulx

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

— James Franco

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

— Patricia Briggs

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

— Brian P. Cleary

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a…

— Jen Kirkman

“Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the…

— Brian Doyle

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

“ Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ”

— Patrick Ness

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

— Nathan Parsons

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

— Jordin Sparks

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

— Bill Cosby

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

— Bret Anthony Johnston

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

— Justin Simien