Stories Quotes · Page 234

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

— George R. R. Martin

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just…

— Susan Orlean

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

— Chinua Achebe

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad…

— Anonymous

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

— Robert Kirkman

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

— Leonard Michaels

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no…

— Edward P. Jones

My talent is working very hard and having a decent nose. A good nose for a story and the ability to get…

— Steve Bunce

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the…

— John Irving

I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long…

— Kiley Dean

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal…

— Annie Gottlieb

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success…

— Carlisle Floyd

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation…

— Signe Baumane

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that…

— Joe Hill

The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a…

— Chinua Achebe

“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to…

— Karen Blixen

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way…

— Chinua Achebe

Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day,…

— George W. Bush

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write…

— Anonymous

My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session…

— Nat Hentoff

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,…

— Graham Hancock

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

— Olivier Dahan

“But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their…

— Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get…

— Carol Anshaw

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

— David Spade

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

— Philip Pullman

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

— Naguib Mahfouz

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

— Mark Sheppard

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

— Stephen Sondheim

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

— Additi Gupta

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

— Pema Chodron

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the…

— David Morse

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

— Too $hort

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

— A. S. Byatt

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

— Mitt Romney

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

— Ru Freeman

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz