Stories Quotes · Page 186

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…

— Willa Cather

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

— Reed Morano

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

— Terry Goodkind

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

— William Landay

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to…

— Alexander Gould

I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is…

— Dave McKean

Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is…

— Kelley Armstrong

I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all…

— Christine Bottomley

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the…

— Marc Maron

The story of Taliban recovery and resurgence begins in the places where they took refuge after 2001. And as long as those…

— Chris Alexander

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having…

— Isabel Allende

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that…

— Morgan Freeman

“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it…

— Scott Simon

It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and…

— David Alan Basche

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories…

— Charles de Lint

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in…

— Philip Pullman

“Peasants and princes, bailiffs and bakers' boys, merchants and mermaids, the figures were all immediately familiar. I had read these stories a…

— Diane Setterfield

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

— Nancy Duarte

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

— Christopher Atkins

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

— Ray Bradbury

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

— David E. Kelley

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

— Steven Spielberg

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more…

— Stephen King

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

— Kabir Khan

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

— Byron Katie

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a…

— Laurence Shames

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

— Henry James

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham