Stories Quotes · Page 219

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

— Margaret Atwood

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will…

— Ed Sabol

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

— J. J. Abrams

“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

— Warren Zevon

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

— Max Ehrmann

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Haruki Murakami

I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I…

— Brooke Burns

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely…

— Gabriel Mann

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from…

— Anonymous

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into…

— Elizabeth Scott

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been…

— Art Alexakis

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we…

— Anonymous

When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like,…

— Harry Elfont

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,…

— Sylvia Plath

I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc…

— Hal Duncan

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the…

— Pat Barker

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and…

— Diane Arbus

I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing,…

— Lori Foster

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of…

— Jill Lepore

Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime…

— Jack Wagner

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along…

— Dean Koontz

The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in…

— Tom Cole

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

— David Shields

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

— Jeff Britting

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

— Chath Piersath

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

— Lily Collins

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

— Hironobu Sakaguchi

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

— George Carlin

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

— Andre Breton

“Stories are vehicles for conveying who we are, what is important, and what ought to be done..”

— David Vermette

I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

— Nikki Gil

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

— Stanley Fish

“One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.”

— Timothy Zahn

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these…

— Bobby Womack

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

— Anne Bancroft

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

— Sade Adu