Stories Quotes · Page 22

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes…

— Dani Shapiro

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said,…

— Kathy Bates

I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are…

— Glen Morgan

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to…

— Anne Tyler

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not…

— David Morrell

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

— Barbara Greene

“This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected”

— Anonymous

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't…

— Frank Deford

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama

— Vinnie Paz

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the…

— Cornelia Funke

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many…

— Orson Welles

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life…

— Natalie Goldberg

If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I…

— Rick Riordan

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence…

— Voltaire

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and…

— Timothy Findley

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story…

— Julie Klassen

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.…

— George Lucas

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I…

— Yann Martel

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.…

— Haniel Long

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

— Mario Puzo