Stories Quotes · Page 24

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

— David Grann

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

— Cornelia Funke

I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.

— Wu Cheng'en

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

— Sergio Aragones

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

— Elizabeth Banks

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

— Cheryl Strayed

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

— Andrew Stanton

“The stories, though, they were all mine.”

— Wendy Jean

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up…

— Deborah Norville

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

— Tara Dakides

If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the…

— Ian Mcewan

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

— Jeremy Lin

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

— Curtis Hanson

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for…

— Kate Atkinson

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and…

— Carrie Fisher

Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads,…

— Jandy Nelson

“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great,…

— Verka Serduchka

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized…

— Louise Penny

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact…

— Russell Hoban

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need…

— Robin Furth

“O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers,…

— Suzy Kassem

though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it…

— Jon Krakauer

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood…

— Virginia Woolf

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start…

— Adam Johnson

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea…

— Stephen Coonts

I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers,…

— Whitney Houston

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did…

— Will Eisner

All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of…

— Andrew Lam

Our larger goal is to tell the story

— Mary Kirchoff

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

— Richard Ford

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

— Andrew Stanton

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

— Jimmy Fallon

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

— Harry S. Truman

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

— Lawrence Kasdan

Empathy is the key to great stories.

— Ami Vitale