Stories Quotes · Page 90

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is…

— Chinua Achebe

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was…

— Marina Warner

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…

— M. John Harrison

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…

— Neil Gaiman

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m…

— Ava DuVernay

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy,…

— James A. Baldwin

I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And…

— Matt Dillon

Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But…

— Lori Wilde

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems…

— Ron Rash

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked…

— Louis L'Amour

Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon…

— Melanie Lynskey

One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface…

— Marina Warner

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive…

— Lawrence Block

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological…

— Umberto Eco

I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right…

— Lauren Oliver

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story…

— Steven Strait

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

— Anonymous

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique…

— Leonard Wolf

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

— Neil Gaiman

We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step…

— Clara Jeffery

So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you…

— Ellen Hopkins

Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me.…

— John Green

What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has…

— Cynthia Ozick

Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his…

— David Anthony Durham

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is…

— Rumi

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we…

— Walt Disney

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of…

— Patricia Lee Gauch

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so…

— George Saunders

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television…

— Elijah Wood

With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they…

— Michael Hirst

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

— Peter Turchi

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

— Shekhar Kapur

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

— Cory Doctorow

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

— Bob Saget

And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer