Stories Quotes · Page 115

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

— Joan Chen

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

— Timothy Keller

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

— Too $hort

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

— Abi Morgan

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

— Steven Spielberg

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

— Mark Twain

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

— Ivanka Trump

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

— Anne Carson

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

— Irving Stone

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

— Horace Mann

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

— Margaret Atwood

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

— Margaret Atwood

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

— Salman Rushdie

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

— Cody Horn

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I…

— Michel Hazanavicius

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of…

— Kenneth Branagh

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is,…

— Rush Limbaugh

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can…

— Anita Roddick

If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you…

— Elizabeth Benedict

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't…

— Therese Fowler

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming…

— Morris Gleitzman

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding…

— Don Bluth

The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or…

— Daphne Gottlieb

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops…

— Nipsey Hussle

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

— Lois Lowry

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a…

— Raymond Chandler

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

The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church…

— Melanie Phillips

You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like…

— Stephen King

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

— Mona Simpson

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

— Malik Yoba

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

— Michael Morpurgo

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

— Daphne Ashbrook

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

— Hugo Munsterberg

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

— Katherine Center

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

— David S. Goyer