Stories Quotes · Page 227

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

— Byron Katie

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

— Nigel Evans

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

— Morgan Parker

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

— Steven Shainberg

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

— Roy Eldridge

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise…

— Alistair Begg

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or…

— Max Lucado

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories…

— Matt Taibbi

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd…

— Natalie Babbitt

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his…

— Armistead Maupin

It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story…

— Matt Barr

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

— James McAvoy

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but…

— Sally Potter

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years,…

— Mike Jackson

“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it…

— Shauna Niequist

Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an…

— Debby Applegate

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until…

— Dashiell Hammett

I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that…

— Alexander Weinstein

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

— Margaret Wise Brown

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

— William Friedkin

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

— Elizabeth Lowell

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

— Tobias Wolff

I didn't grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I'd always hear stories and wonder…

— Redfoo

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

— Richard Branson

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that…

— Justin Guarini

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

— Ayn Rand

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

— Suzanne Collins

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

— Thomas Sowell

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen…

— Sarah Kay

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon