Stories Quotes · Page 177

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

— Yahoo Serious

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

— Robert McKee

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

— James P. Hoffa

I did not get out, and all I had to do was tell myself stories and get invested, and I've never gone…

— Ethel Cain

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

— Mark Sheppard

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a…

— Arundhati Roy

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these…

— Josh Hartnett

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so…

— Seth MacFarlane

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of…

— Sam Pressman

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,'…

— Charles Eisenstein

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle…

— Lloyd Alexander

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's…

— Amy Hardie

So, first, I wanted to be a part of the project because I thought it was an important story to tell. On…

— Zoe Kravitz

Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories…

— Chiara Barzini

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that…

— Stan Lee

“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for…

— Alice Munro

It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than…

— Judy Chicago

Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories…

— Peter Menzel

I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in…

— Julie Klassen

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say…

— Marge Piercy

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

— Scott Turow

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish.

— Kelly Brook

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

— Dorothy Parker

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

— Plato

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming…

— Francesca Lia Block

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

— Jacqueline Carey

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

— Tim O'Brien

“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories.”

— Brian Morton

It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy

— Rick Riordan

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and…

— Zoe Kravitz

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

— Phyllis McGinley

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

— Katie Finneran