Stories Quotes · Page 228

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

— Michio Kaku

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our…

— Ben Okri

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

— Maeve Binchy

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

— John Steinbeck

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

— John Flanagan

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

— Donald Miller

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to…

— Todd McFarlane

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but…

— Charles de Lint

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these…

— Jesse L. Martin

I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out…

— Melanie Martinez

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that…

— George Brandis

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make…

— Anita Shreve

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they…

— Jack Bowman

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a…

— Liana Liberato

When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the…

— Betty White

Uncontainable is a love story. Kip and Sharon's love for each other, their precious family, their business journey of joy and, most…

— Roy Spence

You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with…

— Tom DeLonge

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time…

— Taylor Mali

“But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting…

— Hugh MacLeod

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make…

— Debra Granik

One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going…

— George Saunders

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form…

— Dudley Nichols

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

— Claire Tomalin

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

— Martin Cruz Smith

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

— Jennifer Weiner

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

— Daniel Kahneman

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

— Vincente Minnelli

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

— Charlize Theron

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

— Brad Meltzer

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

— W. G. Sebald

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

— Carrie Fisher

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I'm looking to find good stories, not big commercial pieces of work.

— Amber Heard

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York…

— Edward St Aubyn

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

— Andrew Greeley

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those…

— Amy Chan