Stories Quotes · Page 230

“This world isn’t nearly as chaotic as our minds. Maybe that is why we tell stories.”

— Mitali Meelan

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

— Greg Koukl

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

— Monica Lewinsky

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it…

— Neil Gaiman

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of…

— Paul Simon

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of…

— Lynn Nottage

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf…

— Carson Palmer

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t…

— Emma Donoghue

Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and…

— Olga Masters

I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And…

— Jay Asher

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male…

— Megan Abbott

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into…

— Hideo Kojima

This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come…

— Martha Stewart

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter…

— Lawrence Taylor

We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a…

— Eric Idle

I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and…

— Zachary Quinto

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

— Michelle Beadle

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

— Lee Child

Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

— Brian Weiss

Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create your own story.

— Anonymous

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer…

— Jim Woodring

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

— Damian Lewis

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

— Uwe Boll

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

— Robin Sharma

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of…

— Bebe

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

— Brené Brown

“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”

— Christopher Moore

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take…

— Tucker Max