Stories Quotes · Page 113

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

— Jeff Daniels

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

— Fred Durst

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

— Jennifer Nettles

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

— Elizabeth Olsen

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

— Mitch Albom

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

— Todd Solondz

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

— William Zinsser

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.

— Declan Shalvey

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

— David Levithan

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

— Rob Corddry

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

— Ricky Gervais

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

— Abraham Verghese

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

— Karen Marie Moning

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart…

— Anonymous

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away…

— Mike Stud

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is…

— James Packer

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion…

— Dino De Laurentiis

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,…

— Rebecca Stead

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span…

— Michael Franti

I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I…

— Gary Sinise

The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against…

— Brad Pitt

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced…

— Philip K. Dick

I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…

— Alice Munro

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying…

— George Saunders

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie…

— Bruce Springsteen

If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the…

— Lucy Larcom

Why so many mentions regarding Jesus from such a wide variety of sources (Pliny, Tacitus, Lucian, Josephus, to name a few)? Because…

— Greg Koukl

Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.…

— Nathan Myhrvold

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

— Dorothy Allison

“One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.”

— Timothy Zahn

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

— Ray Bradbury

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

— William Loren Katz