Stories Quotes · Page 181

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

— John Irving

I love stories about self-love and finding your identity and your people.

— Kate Herron

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

— Melina Marchetta

I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

— Sue Monk Kidd

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

— Ivan Illich

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

— Rebecca Goldstein

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

— Lauren Myracle

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise…

— William Lashner

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to…

— Rahm Emanuel

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story…

— Matt Berninger

Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in…

— Max Lucado

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and…

— Bret Harte

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to…

— Ben Hogan

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the…

— Wim Wenders

"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their…

— Mabel Cheung

There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained…

— Merle Haggard

My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had…

— Barack Obama

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I…

— Hiromu Arakawa

But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or…

— James Vance

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to…

— Byron Katie

When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it…

— Lena Dunham

“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the…

— Rebecca Solnit

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old…

— Natalie Goldberg

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

— Brian Swimme

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

— Terence McKenna

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

— Adriana Trigiani

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked…

— ZZ Packer

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

— Susan Fletcher

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

— Thomas King

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

— Rob Bell

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

— Rachael Yamagata

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

— Alastair Campbell

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

— Billy Corgan

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

— Pat Brown

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

— Jason Rezaian

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

— C. S. Lewis

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

— Tanith Lee

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

— Peter Milligan