Stories Quotes · Page 196

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be…

— Nicky Gumbel

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

— Christopher Vogler

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.

— Tapani Bagge

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

— Jane Smiley

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still…

— Karl Lagerfeld

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

— Richard Dreyfuss

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do…

— Linda Sue Park

The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are.…

— Martha Beck

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but…

— Nic Pizzolatto

What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn't front and center because…

— Mike Colter

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't…

— Byron Katie

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Kim Jee-woon

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a…

— Chinua Achebe

The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print.…

— Norman Pearlstine

What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary…

— Neal Stephenson

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people…

— Franz Kafka

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less…

— Anonymous

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,…

— Mike Nichols

hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a…

— Jeff Pinkner

“I have learned well the roles and scripts we people create for ourselves, and how afraid most people are of stepping outside…

— Shellen Lubin

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it…

— Frank Darabont

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what…

— Kevin Durant

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

— Dan B. Allender

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

— Ashwin Sanghi

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

— Richard Bach

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

— Tim O'Brien

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.…

— Red Smith

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

— Jairek Robbins

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

— Hayao Miyazaki

“The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.”

— Vishwas Mudagal

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

— Mark Polish

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

— Elisabeth Moss

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

— Karen Lord

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

— Edward P. Jones

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been…

— Brandi Carlile