Stories Quotes · Page 58

“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.”

— Anne Lamott

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

— E. L. James

“Some Stories Begin At The End Of Times”

— Michael J. Frey

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

— Ben Okri

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

— Meghan O'Rourke

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

— Sarah Dessen

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

— Tony Wilson

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

— Additi Gupta

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

— Ru Freeman

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

— Stephen King

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

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and…

— Tracy Kidder

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

— Virginia Woolf

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

— Dorothy Parker

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the…

— David Sedaris

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of…

— Robert Moss

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the…

— Russell Baker

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are…

— Matthew Modine

“The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the…

— Kevin Feige

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are…

— Morris Gleitzman

When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his…

— George Weigel

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I…

— Amy Smart

Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the…

— John Cheever

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut…

— David Bowie

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business…

— Yann Martel

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two…

— Marsha Norman

I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was…

— Ann Voskamp

In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing…

— Kwame Dawes

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot…

— Justin Chadwick

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of…

— Julia Gillard

Brett Favre likes to tell stories.

— Stephen Rodrick

Some stories aren't black and white.

— CJ Roberts

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

— Darius Rucker

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

— Patrick Ness

I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

— Katori Hall

I just want to get on and tell stories.

— Irvine Welsh

Those who tell the stories rule society.

— Plato

I love art, but I'm also interested in people's stories.

— Ginevra Elkann