Stories Quotes · Page 209

Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy…

— Howie Mandel

I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

— Bruno Zheng Wu

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

— Jon Ronson

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

— Carol Bly

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling…

— Jonathan Gottschall

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a…

— Emmanuelle Bercot

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

— Vincente Minnelli

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell…

— Amy Poehler

I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own…

— Lucinda Riley

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but…

— Barbara Mertz

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that…

— Alfonso Herrera

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell…

— Randy Weston

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge…

— Erskine Caldwell

In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated,…

— James Cameron

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed…

— Anonymous

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All…

— Anne Sexton

There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted…

— Jessica Pare

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are…

— Dawna Markova

If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether…

— Anne Makepeace

One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of…

— Alan Weisman

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline…

— John Grisham

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

— Mireille Enos

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of…

— Nicole Krauss

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

— Melanie Lynskey

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

— Thomas Hardy

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

— Neil Gaiman

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story…

— George Balanchine

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

— Molly Crabapple

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

— Katie Holmes

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

— Rachel Griffiths

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to…

— Sarah Polley

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

— Anton Chekhov

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

— Stephen Jay Gould

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

— Nora Roberts

Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

— J. Nozipo Maraire

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

— Eric Reeves