Stories Quotes · Page 65

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

— William Kittredge

“You can't blame a book for its story.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

I don't believe in kiss-n-tell stories.

— Shatrughan Sinha

“Stories are meant to be told, both new and old.”

— Jahangir Ashraf

There is no story that is not true.

— Chinua Achebe

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

— Jessica Chastain

“All stories are ultimately about the fall.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

— Millicent Simmonds

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

— Gabrielle Aplin

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

— Scott Hastie

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

— David Levithan

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing…

— Marc E. Platt

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

— Taylor Swift

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside…

— Neil Gaiman

Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's…

— Rick Remender

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a…

— Marina Warner

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by…

— Louise Erdrich

I am always looking for stories that will shed light on how companies define themselves - for better or for worse. When…

— John P. Kotter

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my…

— Gabrielle Aplin

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great…

— Kimberly Peirce

I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether…

— Staceyann Chin

I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always…

— Cillian Murphy

Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up…

— Hillary Clinton

Her sister [June Havoc] said the musical portrayed who Gypsy [Rose Lee] wanted to be before the burlesque thing happened she wanted…

— Karen Abbott

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in…

— Mads Mikkelsen

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm…

— Anonymous

Whoever tells the best story wins.

— John Quincy Adams

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story,

— Carl Hiaasen

“Rule 1 of stories: no interrupting.”

— John Green

her stories make you believe in the power of love

— Catherine Anderson

I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.

— John Robert Colombo

“Keep in mind, measurement is not just numbers, but stories.”

— Pearl Zhu

Every man is a hero of his own story.

— Brandon Sanderson