Stories Quotes · Page 222

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

— John Sweeney

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

— Max Frisch

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

— Janna Levin

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

— Elton John

We wrote every single song, and they're all true stories. Some people don't believe us, but they are.

— Maddie Marlow

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over…

— Kurt Busiek

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards…

— Aisha Tyler

Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the…

— Nalo Hopkinson

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and…

— Eric Ries

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When…

— Colleen Atwood

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they…

— Garry Winogrand

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense…

— Liz Curtis Higgs

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized…

— Alfonso Cuaron

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake…

— B. C. Forbes

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor…

— Brian McDonald

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And…

— A. J. Liebling

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional…

— Timothy B. Tyson

It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being…

— Michelle Alexander

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with…

— Chuck Palahniuk

This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us…

— Anne Rice

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it…

— Natasha Kaplinsky

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way…

— Jeanette Winterson

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to…

— Will Forte

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

— John Berger

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

— Franz Kafka

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

— Harold Ramis

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next…

— Rob Roberge

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.

— Anonymous

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

— Philippe Petit

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

— Donald Miller

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

— Frank Miller

“Sometimes broken shoes and tattered clothes can tell us beautiful stories!”

— Avijeet Das

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

— Peter Hedges

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart