Stories Quotes · Page 193

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

— Susanne Wuest

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take…

— Isak Dinesen

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the…

— Claude Lelouch

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked…

— Ed Sheeran

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

— Blake Lively

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

— Rudyard Kipling

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do…

— Ezra Klein

I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love…

— Cakes da killa

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love…

— Ted Demme

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus…

— Carol Bly

The same sports sayings seem to be used over and over again. If you have your own favorite sport saying and would…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the…

— Paulo Coelho

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all…

— Alan Hirsch

“I wanted to know what our family's stories were. I wanted to know the things Mom wouldn't think to tell me. Things…

— Adib Khorram

And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,…

— Brian Henson

The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget.…

— Jack Kerouac

The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with…

— Michelle Alexander

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an…

— Yves Behar

We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the…

— Hassan Blasim

In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where…

— Michael Kenna

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that…

— Cornell Woolrich

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

— Albert Einstein

“Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.”

— Amit Kalantri

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories.

— Bill de Blasio

“The never-ending stream-of-consciousness stories planted the seed or God or faith or my dysfunctional family of loving parents.”

— Abigail George

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

— Cathy Freeman

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

— Esra Saydam