Stories Quotes · Page 203

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.”

— Shannon Donnelly

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

— Raymond Carver

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

— Rayvon Owen

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

— Gloria Swanson

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

— PJ Harvey

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

— Melissa de la Cruz

As a mom, I also know that many of the stories that I cover may impact our son's life in some form…

— Margaret Brennan

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have…

— Nick Cave

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert…

— Eckhart Tolle

The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That's what he wanted, and the media was…

— Rush Limbaugh

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic…

— Laurie Penny

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two…

— Leslie Ford

Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that…

— Anonymous

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel…

— Rian Johnson

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are…

— Sharlto Copley

A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in…

— Anthony Swofford

When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so…

— Lucia Puenzo

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of…

— Anne Frank

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves.…

— Charles de Lint

As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose…

— Eudora Welty

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine…

— Dave Barry

Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer…

— Melanie Rae Thon

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

— Stephen Sondheim

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

— Mitch Albom

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

— Jeaniene Frost

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t…

— Stephen King

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

— Jean Little

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

— Kelly Rowland

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

— Malik Bendjelloul

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug…

— Tash

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

— Yahoo Serious

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

— George Mackay Brown

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

— Iris Murdoch

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

— Blake Mycoskie

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT…

— Christopher Nolan

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

— Wendy Raquel Robinson