Stories Quotes · Page 192

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

— Cesar Millan

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

— Deepak Chopra

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

— Hilary Duff

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

— Katherine Mansfield

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

— Salman Rushdie

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do,…

— Chris Martin

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact…

— Russell Hoban

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need…

— Robin Furth

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

— Scott Adams

If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together.…

— David O. Russell

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read…

— Alex Haley

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's…

— Ruben Martinez

I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real…

— Ethan Hawke

...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift…

— Ryukishi07

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib…

— Max Lucado

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is,…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up…

— Paul Ryan

My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I…

— Vienna Teng

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it.…

— Seth Godin

It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that…

— Rick Rowley

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the…

— Ira Sachs

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous

“As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.”

— Stephen King

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

— Patricia Hampl

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

— Raymond Carver

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and…

— John Steinbeck

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

— Elie Wiesel

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

— Charlyne Yi

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or…

— Alice Munro

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

— Jamie Dornan

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget…

— Lorene Scafaria