Stories Quotes · Page 218

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

The more life stories you have together, the more you have to say on stage.

— Susan Tedeschi

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Britannia High' is not for three-year-old kids. There are emotional stories in it that are not for little children.

— Arlene Phillips

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

— Charles Kuralt

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

— Jean Houston

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

— Seymour Hersh

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always…

— Jean M. Auel

Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage…

— Mindy Kaling

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry…

— Georgie Henley

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series…

— John Ortberg

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything…

— Culbert Olson

I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album…

— George Benson

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how…

— Emily Mortimer

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel…

— Philip K. Dick

Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with…

— Laura Bell Bundy

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let…

— David Hume

It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex…

— Cecelia Ahern

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated…

— Charles Handy

The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,…

— Thucydides

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it…

— David J. Lieberman

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and…

— Joe Robert Cole

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you…

— Sylvia Plath

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

— Lewis Carroll

“How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.”

— Andy Quan

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

— Stephen Hawking

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

— Bob Frankston

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

“Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.”

— Crystal Woods

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

— Philip Yancey

Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

— Eric Walters

Maybe its not about the happy endings, but maybe its about the choices you make in the story.

— Alyssa Charles

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

— Dolly Parton

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

— Dan Scanlon

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

— Kenneth Koch

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

— Ambrose Bierce

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

— Lemon Andersen