Stories Quotes · Page 216

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

— Chance the Rapper

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

— Victor Levin

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

— Elissa Schappell

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

— Frank Herbert

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

— Jean Houston

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with…

— Elizabeth Bishop

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I…

— Margaret Mahy

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids,…

— Lloyd Bridges

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back…

— John Irving

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories…

— Josef Sudek

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news…

— Rush Limbaugh

I want to make movies - and I want to portray characters - that make people think. I want to make movies…

— Drew Waters

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are…

— Nile Rodgers

For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of…

— Tim O'Brien

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your…

— Aeschylus

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to…

— Anonymous

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.…

— Antonya Nelson

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell…

— Voltaire

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at…

— Othniel Charles Marsh

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story,…

— Steve Case

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

— Emma Thompson

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

— Dyllan McGee

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

— Abi Morgan

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your…

— Jay-Z

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your…

— John Dufresne

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find…

— Alexis Denisof

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

— Ayn Rand

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

— Ernest Hemingway

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

— George Washington

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

— Malik Bendjelloul

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

— Josh Helman

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

— Volker Bertelmann

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs.…

— Amanda Bynes

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which…

— Daniel Taylor