Stories Quotes · Page 207

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

— Gina Rodriguez

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

— Roberto Calasso

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

— Peter Gallagher

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

— Chad Lowe

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

— Daniel Clowes

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human…

— Salman Rushdie

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could…

— Kate Morton

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep…

— Henry Cloud

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For…

— Mireille Enos

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just…

— Diego Luna

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about…

— Cate Blanchett

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story.…

— Joe Sacco

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever…

— Sarah MacLean

It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize…

— Emmanuel Jal

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and…

— Alan Rickman

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an…

— Richard Ford

People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell…

— Bernie Siegel

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently,…

— Will Hermes

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea…

— Amy Hempel

The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes…

— Elia Suleiman

And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the…

— Jessica Chastain

All the best love stories have one thing in common... you have to go against odds to get there.

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

— Ken Burns

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

— Gerard Way

No two love stories are the same though the love factor might be the same.

— Kay Kay Menon

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

— Vestal McIntyre

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

— Bruce Springsteen

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

— Susan Wittig Albert

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

— Ted Naifeh

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

— Kate Forsyth

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

— Paul S. Kemp

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

I was offered Vicky Kaushal's role in 'Lust Stories,' which I had declined.

— Badshah

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

— Franz Wright

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That…

— Neale Donald Walsch

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell…

— Gore Verbinski