Stories Quotes · Page 111

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

— Matt Damon

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

— Robert J. Shiller

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

— Stephen King

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

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

— Paloma Faith

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

— Ray Bradbury

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

— Cressida Cowell

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

— Jim Lehrer

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

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

— Scott Hastie

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

— David Alan Basche

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

— Chris Martin

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

— Gary Ross

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and…

— George Saunders

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is…

— Charles Baxter

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.…

— Gene Wolfe

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin',…

— Jay-Z

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is…

— Lena Dunham

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a…

— Christopher Moore

There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other…

— Ryan McGinness

I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here,…

— Matthew McConaughey

I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down…

— Nick Cave

Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic —…

— Holly Black

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of…

— Otto Penzler

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is…

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to…

— John Lewis

The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way…

— Stan Lee

In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large…

— Nolan Bushnell

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

— Michael Bergin

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

— Jennifer Egan

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

— Karthik Subbaraj

My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.

— Tracy Spiridakos

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

— Judy Reyes

“Sometimes broken shoes and tattered clothes can tell us beautiful stories!”

— Avijeet Das