Stories Quotes · Page 86

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent…

— Anonymous

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie…

— Howard Gordon

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . .…

— Anouk Aimee

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

— Beth Kephart

The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing…

— Emma Goldman

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,…

— Marian Keyes

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is…

— Ted Naifeh

It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/…

— Alison Mosshart

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

— Nancy Duarte

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the…

— Arthur Bradford

[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet…

— Rush Limbaugh

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen…

— Thomas Keating

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

— Brandon Sanderson

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

— Jack Horner

I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that…

— David Ayer

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the…

— Ben Lerner

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?…

— Jennifer Egan

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in…

— P. L. Travers

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

— Amy Schumer

Akbar and Birbal stories have an instant connect with people of all ages.

— Kiku Sharda

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope…

— Jamie Tworkowski

At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called…

— Glen Keane

Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

— Vera Nazarian

Every New York Times story [about Donald Trump] is the result of the organizational efforts of Barack Obama.

— Rush Limbaugh

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry…

— Maya Angelou

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

— Thomas King

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

— Ringo Starr

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were…

— Walter Salles

Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I…

— Stephen King

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a…

— Denis Johnson

I told my whole life story in my book.

— Heather Mills

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening…

— John Hancock

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in…

— David Duchovny

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told…

— Steven Knight

The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in…

— Tom Cole