Stories Quotes · Page 225

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

— Salman Rushdie

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job…

— Philip Pullman

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so…

— Daniel Johnston

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

— Stewart O'Nan

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

— Richard Finney

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

— Ben Kingsley

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the…

— Junot Diaz

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling…

— Harrison Ford

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but…

— T.C. Boyle

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

— Mitch Albom

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I…

— Alexander Koch

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to…

— Agnes Varda

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a…

— Aaron Huey

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know…

— Tony Danza

To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the…

— Kathryn Schulz

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants;…

— Herbert Spencer

A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so…

— Alex Kotlowitz

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a…

— Gena Showalter

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems…

— Tim O'Brien

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is…

— Rumi

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no…

— Homer

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

— Reza Aslan

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. - Philip Pullman”

— Jessica Kelly

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Would it have made a difference? This is the question we always ask after we have given up.”

— Thomas King

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

— Bill Watterson

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

— Tracy Martin

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

— Hideaki Anno

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

— Roberto Calasso

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

— Marion Cotillard

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

— Marc Andreessen

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that…

— Henning Mankell

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

— Richard Denney