Stories Quotes · Page 6

The best defense is a good story.

— Frederick Busch

Life stories are mostly story.

— Mariana Fulger

I want to tell stories of impact.

— Stephanie Ruhle

It's no sin to tell a good story.

— Steven Heighton

A mystery is solved with a story.

— Anonymous

And in stories, endings matter.

— Atul Gawande

“Stories do not end.”

— anais nin

As a child I loved ghost stories.

— Rebecca Hall

“Bad decisions make good stories. --from an Internet list.”

— Ellis Vidler

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

— Thom Yorke

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

— Evan Esar

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

— Salman Rushdie

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

— Mark Twain

“Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.”

— Lisa Cron

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

— Nate Berkus

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

— Cornelia Funke

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

— Fred Barnes

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

— Joe Bob Briggs

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

— Ian Mcewan

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

— John Darnielle

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

— Adam Pally

“Life is like a collection of short stories, full of twists and turns, and always striving towards a happy ending.”

— Kathy Keroson

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at…

— W. H. Auden

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve…

— Johnny Galecki

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and…

— Virginia Henley

You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel…

— Greg Berlanti

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind…

— Cinco Paul

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles.…

— Bernard Stiegler

No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't…

— Stan Lee

A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he…

— Ayman Mohyeldin

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's…

— Jodi Picoult

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a…

— Bill James

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white…

— John Hodgman

It's really quite an interesting dynamic. I wanted to play to the truth of who Manute was in the first film, while…

— Dennis Haysbert

What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in…

— Peter Bradshaw

“...a life - and a story - cannot be defined simply by the way one says good-bye. It's the introductions, the mistakes,…

— Crystal Cestari