Stories Quotes · Page 118

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

— Tobias Wolff

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

— Jason Isaacs

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

— Anonymous

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

— Reza Aslan

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

— Joyce Maynard

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

— Paul S. Kemp

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

— Melanie Laurent

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

— Jennifer Aniston

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

— Marita Golden

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

— Richard Linklater

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

— Charles Stross

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

— James P. Hoffa

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

— Kim Smith

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes.…

— Bill Cosby

“I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to…

— Alejandro Zambra

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves…

— Kadir Nelson

“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality.…

— Cassandra Clare

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,…

— Dido Armstrong

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,…

— David Friedman

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual…

— Kenneth Branagh

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're…

— Sara Sheridan

Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come…

— Barry Lopez

I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend…

— Mary J. Miller

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of…

— Daniel Handler

The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic…

— Todd Farmer

When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult…

— David Douglas

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of…

— Willa Cather

The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can…

— Daniel Alarcon

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

— John Ortberg

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

— Ricky Skaggs

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

— Nora Roberts

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

— Ted Naifeh

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

— Jeff Britting

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

— Bobby Heenan

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

— Abbas Kiarostami