Stories Quotes · Page 102

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too…

— Anita Desai

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

— Paula Rego

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

— Esther Freud

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

— Howard Nemerov

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different…

— Miranda Kerr

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

— Steve Saint

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide…

— Stanley Schmidt

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story…

— Mariel Hemingway

The Republicans have never had, in their story - conservatives, either, have never had... I'm talking this in a media context, now.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and…

— Jess Walter

Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of…

— Michael Imperioli

I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's…

— Richard Ben Cramer

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant…

— Erich Auerbach

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience…

— Dan Rather

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is…

— Al Gore

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just…

— John Benjamin Hickey

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story…

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because…

— Kirsten Miller

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering…

— Charles de Lint

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's…

— Robert Kane Pappas

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

— R. A. Lafferty

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

— Jeff Britting

I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about…

— Judi Dench

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

— Haile Gerima

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of…

— Juliana Hatfield

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

— Ralph Nader

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

— Thomas R. Insel

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

— Michelle Stuart

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

— Seth Godin

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

— N.D. Wilson

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

— Tony Benn

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

— Bob Woodward