Stories Quotes · Page 208

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

— Douglas Coupland

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

— Billy Joel

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

— Richard Flanagan

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

— Marianne Williamson

I have heard a lot of good stories about the UAE through my colleagues and those who have been here.

— David Trezeguet

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

— Sandra Cisneros

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

— David Schwimmer

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a…

— Orson Scott Card

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of…

— Andy Serkis

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued…

— Justine Larbalestier

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make…

— Tyler Perry

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to…

— Salman Rushdie

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort…

— Patrick Rothfuss

If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories…

— Helen Fielding

I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him…

— Justin Vernon

Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to…

— Esther Hicks

“I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I…

— Dave Eggers

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the…

— Alfred Bester

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching…

— Cornelia Funke

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,…

— Denis Villeneuve

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far…

— Chinua Achebe

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many…

— Michael Koryta

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

— Khaled Hosseini

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

— Jonathan Gottschall

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

— Gloria Swanson

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

— Stephen King

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

— Byron Katie

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

— Chance the Rapper

“Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do.”

— Emily Winfield Martin

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only…

— Michael Arrington

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

— Etgar Keret

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion…

— Kobe Bryant

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

— Luiz Bolognesi