Stories Quotes · Page 214

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

— David Eddings

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

— Karen Bass

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing…

— Annette Bening

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

— O. Henry

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

— Manuel Puig

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

— L.P. Hartley

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

— Nick Blaemire

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

— Mark Rubinstein

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff…

— Stephen King

In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love…

— Nicholas Sparks

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories.…

— Daniel Clowes

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other…

— David Icke

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the…

— Ben Lerner

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic…

— Mort Kondracke

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I…

— Anne Rice

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,…

— John Boyne

In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing…

— George Saunders

Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to…

— Cornelia Funke

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm…

— Stephen Hawking

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would…

— Chika Anadu

For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.…

— John Winthrop

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then…

— Terry Pratchett

Blasting the music,Sit in the corner with thoughts,Close my eyes, cover my ears,and realizing everything I've done, over thinking and opened my…

— Jazzy

I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the…

— Winston Duke

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

— Ree Drummond

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

— Jennifer McMahon

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

— Michelle Williams

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

— Paul Bloom

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

— Alice Munro

“I have read stories of budget airlines stranding families and them having to pay $9,000 to get home!”

— Steven Magee

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

— Mark Haddon

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

— Marie de France

Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.

— Michael Grant

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

— Anil Kapoor

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Eudora Welty