Stories Quotes · Page 217

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

— Mitch Harper

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

— Amy Purdy

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

— Leo Tolstoy

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

— Leo Buscaglia

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen…

— Saoirse Ronan

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to…

— Josh Helman

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't…

— Donald Ray Pollock

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and…

— Ian Mcewan

There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake…

— Pom Klementieff

When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me.…

— Kevin Costner

A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A…

— Owen Gleiberman

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing…

— Denis O'Hare

There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and…

— Jake M. Johnson

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was…

— Ami McKay

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do…

— Amitabh Bachchan

My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but…

— James Rozoff

“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The…

— Marina Warner

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

— Jiang Wen

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know…

— Colum McCann

When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist.

— Petra Collins

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

— Joe Berlinger

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus…

— Max Lucado

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

— James Dashner

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

— Colin Flaherty

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

— Zeljko Ivanek

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

— Primo Levi

“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.”

— John Joseph Adams

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

— Frank Spotnitz

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

— Carlos Saldanha

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert