Stories Quotes · Page 114

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

— Jiang Wen

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

— Warren Zevon

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

— Morris Chestnut

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

— Peter Carey

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.

— Tapani Bagge

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

— Pat Brown

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

— Richelle Mead

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

— Seth Godin

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

— Michael Shermer

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

— Larry Niven

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

— Barry Hannah

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path…

— Louise Jameson

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether…

— Evangeline Lilly

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these…

— Josh Hartnett

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you…

— Taron Egerton

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For…

— Mireille Enos

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested…

— George Lucas

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the…

— Calvin Trillin

“JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life? LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow. JAY: Honest meaning closer to the…

— David Foster Wallace

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like…

— Cornelia Funke

“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or…

— Jeroninio Almeida

[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning…

— Viggo Mortensen

That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So…

— John Shelby Spong

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after…

— Rick Riordan

Philip is being very vocal about it. For me, I don't think the story isn't at all anti-religious in any way. I…

— Daniel Craig

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

— Clint Eastwood

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

— Patrick Wilson

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

— Salman Rushdie

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

— Karen Lord

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

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

— Jeffery Deaver