Stories Quotes · Page 38

“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

— Barry White

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal”

— Howard Gardner

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about

— Gay Talese

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

— Robert Fitzgerald

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

— Robert Munsch

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

— Katherine Hannigan

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

— Billy Joel

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

— Stephen King

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

— Gloria Swanson

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

— Jonathan Gottschall

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

— Byron Katie

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry…

— Henry Rollins

A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say…

— Mary J. Miller

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an…

— Michael Shermer

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in…

— Laurel Nakadate

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…

— Susan Jacoby

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you…

— Anthony Horowitz

People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They…

— CM Punk

Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of…

— Anonymous

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in…

— Leo Tolstoy

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc…

— David Maraniss

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true…

— Dan Chaon

When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the…

— Oliver Stone

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in…

— Vera Nazarian

“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

— Michael Showalter

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

— Kate Seredy

I keep finding good stories so I don't see a reason not to work.

— Anubhav Sinha

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

— Lily Collins

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

— Angelique Kidjo

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

— Christopher Bollen

There are two types of stories: public and private.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

— Camila Cabello