Stories Quotes · Page 221

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published…

— Ben Fountain

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be…

— Tanith Lee

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a…

— Katie Finneran

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

— Bob Woodward

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

— Justin Chadwick

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

— Cillian Murphy

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

— Mitch Albom

Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

— Patrick Star

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to…

— Rodney King

Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well…

— Michael Horton

Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks…

— Nia Vardalos

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to…

— Zoe Saldana

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained…

— Cynthia Voigt

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words…

— Shane Dawson

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What…

— Dreezy

I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and…

— Libba Bray

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the…

— Rudolf Hoss

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a…

— Rumi

It looked like it might not work out with Michael Keaton, so they asked Joel Schumacher, 'Who do you want for Batman?'…

— Val Kilmer

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They…

— David Leavitt

“The more bleach in the bedsheets, the greater Chastity's impulse to roll around in them. A party would be thrown, she decided,…

— Amelia Gray

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:…

— Henry Cavill

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

“This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected”

— Anonymous

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads…

— Chris Brogan

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

— Andrew Davies

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

— Denzel Washington

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

— Raymond Carver

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire…

— Michael Franti

“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”

— Markus Zusak

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

— Jon M. Chu

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

— Nina Blackwood

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

— James Denton

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

— Gene Wolfe

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his…

— SonReal

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold...

— George Lucas

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

— Neil Gaiman

“The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.”

— Steve Maraboli