Stories Quotes · Page 174

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to…

— Katie Cassidy

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

— Richard Linklater

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

— Michael Hastings

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

— Andrew Scott

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the…

— Becky G

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

— Robert Reich

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people…

— Nick Antosca

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar…

— Nick Denton

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not…

— Daniel Kahneman

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I…

— Jon Gordon

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message…

— Aamir Khan

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls…

— Jesmyn Ward

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt…

— Margaret Mahy

All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of…

— Patrick Stump

I never get used to the red carpets and premieres, to be honest, but when you're walking down the red carpet promoting…

— Deborah Mailman

...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow…

— Virginia Woolf

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in…

— David Foster Wallace

I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would…

— William Hudson O'Hanlon

No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the…

— Milan Kundera

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually…

— Arundhati Roy

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like…

— Bill James

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of…

— Daniel Handler

If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and…

— Fred Rogers

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

— Greil Marcus

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one…

— Nate Berkus

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

— Nicholas Lea

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,

— Robert McKee

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

— Nicholas Sparks

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

— Stephen Chbosky

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

— Rick Fox

“What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it.”

— Samuel Beckett

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

— Tom Berenger

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

— Marshall Ganz

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

— Annie Leonard

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest…

— Max Lucado

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

— Amy Ryan

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

— Karen Russell