Stories Quotes · Page 86

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

— Margaret Atwood

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

— Bruce Coville

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

— Isak Dinesen

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

— Danny Bonaduce

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

— Jack Kerouac

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

— Robert Newton Peck

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

— Yishan Wong

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

— Lauren Kate

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

— Paloma Faith

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

— Walter Isaacson

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

— Stewart O'Nan

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job…

— Philip Pullman

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance.…

— Nicolas Roeg

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived…

— Helen M. Luke

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side…

— Cornelia Funke

A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.…

— Arthur Rothstein

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet…

— Phil Foglio

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained…

— Spalding Gray

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on…

— Eduardo Galeano

Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you.…

— Liz Tuccillo

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the…

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Crystal Cestari

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

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

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said…

— Agnes Varda

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story,…

— Kate Dickie

I'm feeling really grateful. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to participate in this game for as long as I have.…

— Pink

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

— Frederick Busch

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

— Regina Spektor

“But bad luck makes good stories.”

— Bernard Evslin

I always write a story in one sitting.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

— Mary Pilon

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

— George Barr McCutcheon