Stories Quotes · Page 436

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You…

— Tony Robbins

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want…

— Stephen King

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to…

— Anna Quindlen

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble,…

— Biz Stone

With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and…

— John Boyne

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the…

— Colum McCann

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.…

— Markus Zusak

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than…

— Jodi Picoult

I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you…

— Judi Dench

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.…

— John Lithgow

Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not…

— Charles Baxter

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when…

— Brene Brown

I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents,…

— Victoria Laurie

Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly. [...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the…

— Eoin Colfer

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a…

— Erin Wasson

I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is…

— Evelyn Underhill

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important…

— Kristi Jacobson

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah

Do you want this to be a love story?

— Jenny Downham

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of…

— Bryan Brown

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information…

— Jonah Berger

There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male…

— Marina Warner

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,…

— Dan Ariely

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

— Galcher Lustwerk

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I…

— Kate Bush

Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see…

— David Carson

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were…

— Adam Langer

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and…

— Andrew Peterson

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns…

— Josip Novakovich

“She didn't look up, her gaze focused entirely on the paper before her as she drew what looked like a wing. He…

— Melanie Dobson

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so…

— Aaron Levie