Stories Quotes · Page 419

You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to…

— Jon Spaihts

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll…

— Cornelia Funke

Death steals everything except our stories.

— Jim Harrison

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual…

— Jeff Schaffer

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to…

— Ben Hogan

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story…

— Sara Sheridan

It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about…

— Carrie Coon

Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -…

— Bill Kurtis

Every story has its demands.

— Clint Eastwood

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls…

— Nainoa Thompson

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

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to…

— Saul Williams

We had lunch that day [with Chris Ellis], and I was talking about this idea. I toyed with it a little bit…

— Brent Spiner

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into…

— Charles Kuralt

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

— Brian Michael Bendis

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to…

— Robert Redford

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them…

— Edwidge Danticat

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

— Ty Pennington

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

— James B. Herrick

I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own…

— Maryann Brandon

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular.…

— Mircea Monroe

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston

So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got…

— Joseph Kosinski

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how…

— Etgar Keret

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

— James Lafferty

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories…

— Naima Adedapo

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

— Chinua Achebe

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

— Jesse Eisenberg

“In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every…

— Lemony Snicket

For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw…

— Markus Zusak

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or…

— Baz Luhrmann

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of…

— Alberto Villoldo

There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to…

— Steve Erickson

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

— Grantland Rice

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily…

— Joyce Thompson

But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

— William Butler Yeats