Stories Quotes · Page 171

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

— Ann Patchett

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“There's a million stories glistening in her eyes if you just have time to look.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch…

— Emma Donoghue

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

— Richard J. Daley

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

— Taylor Swift

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

— Lydia Davis

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

— Mohsin Hamid

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell,…

— Josh Lawson

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another…

— Frederick Lenz

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider…

— Patton Oswalt

Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how…

— John Crowley

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do…

— Maggie Stiefvater

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but…

— Charles Bass

I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a…

— Matt Bomer

David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle…

— Alexander Weinstein

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but…

— Anonymous

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the…

— Camilla Gibb

“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while…

— paul murray

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked…

— Clarence Darrow

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of…

— Michael Moss

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages…

— David Nicholls

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while…

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Morgan Spurlock

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Anonymous

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

— Helen Humphreys

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

— Sam Mendes

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

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Andrew Garfield

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

— Neil Jordan

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

— Ami Vitale

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

— Mitch Albom

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

“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