Stories Quotes · Page 212

Sometimes I make up stories to go along with the pictures I find. And I always wish they would happen to me.

— Crap

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

— Garret Dillahunt

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

— Anais Nin

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I…

— Colm Toibin

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

— Robert Englund

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

— Lucy Hale

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

— Stephen King

“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.”

— Stefanos Livos

I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional…

— Wladimir Klitschko

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at…

— Jami Attenberg

Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with,…

— Tucker Max

Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you…

— Donna Tartt

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my…

— Terry Pratchett

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow…

— Stephen Sondheim

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like…

— Gay Talese

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know…

— Marion Cotillard

I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon…

— Steven Moffat

I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or…

— Garth Nix

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family…

— Russell M. Nelson

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and…

— Meir Shalev

Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to…

— Jon Stewart

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who…

— L. Frank Baum

There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

— Linda Sue Park

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

— Malik Yoba

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

— Maeve Binchy

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story,…

— Matthew Weiner

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.

— George MacDonald

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

— Bill Johnson

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

— Liam James

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said…

— Woody Allen

Different stories that you read make you realize how grateful you are.

— Anonymous

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

— Edward Herrmann

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop…

— Ray Bradbury

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

— Taylor Swift

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

— John Leguizamo