Stories Quotes · Page 184

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

— Judy Greer

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I…

— Kim Ji-woon

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write…

— Jonah Lehrer

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

— Scott Westerfeld

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

— Jason Alexander

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

— David Grann

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

— Steven Knight

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

— Seth

“Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the…

— Colson Whitehead

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life…

— Tullian Tchividjian

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only…

— Sarah J. Maas

I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.” “Me, too,”…

— James Patterson

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and…

— Arthur Bradford

I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context…

— Keith Carradine

When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and…

— Susane Colasanti

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest…

— Mark Twain

My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a…

— Karin Tidbeck

“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there…

— Sandra Scofield

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful…

— Roger Ebert

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about…

— Anonymous

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

— Neil Gaiman

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm…

— Charles de Lint

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching…

— Emanuel Lasker

“Stories aren't always told on paper, sometimes they are imprinted on the skin...forever..”

— Zoey Sweete

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

— Robert T. Bakker

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that…

— Joshuah Bearman

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

— Brad Meltzer

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

— Dane Cook

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

— Peter Hedges

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

— Julianna Margulies

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

— Volker Bertelmann

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

— Marco Tempest

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

— David Blatt

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't…

— Adam Johnson