Stories Quotes · Page 220

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life…

— Gabrielle Roth

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

— Anne Enright

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

— LeCrae

“But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.”

— Kate Messner

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

— John Green

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the…

— Paul Auster

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

— Joseph Bruchac

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so…

— Tess Gerritsen

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have…

— Gary Saul Morson

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story…

— Asne Seierstad

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by,…

— Lewis Carroll

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for…

— Mary McDonnell

Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I…

— Soledad O'Brien

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and…

— Patrick Lussier

There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by…

— Andrea Leadsom

All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the…

— Betty Friedan

The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they…

— Sandra Dallas

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch…

— Anne Rice

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a…

— Byron Katie

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots,…

— Alex Lemon

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the…

— Andy Serkis

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to…

— Michael Winterbottom

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die”

— Cassandra Clare

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

— Mel Giedroyc

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

— Marion Cotillard

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

— Nicholas Sparks

Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story.

— Andrew Dice Clay

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

— Cory Doctorow

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for…

— Michael Morpurgo

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

— Shane Carruth

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

— Lili Taylor

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

— Joss Whedon

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

— Nick Wechsler

“Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.”

— John Crowley

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

— P. G. Wodehouse