Stories Quotes · Page 106

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

— William Bernbach

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have…

— Rob Bell

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the…

— Karen Kingsbury

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

— Sara Paretsky

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

— Simon Sinek

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in…

— Nicholas Sparks

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had…

— Ruth Glick

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories,…

— Bipasha Basu

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those…

— John Berger

I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it…

— Todd Farmer

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe…

— Karina Longworth

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station…

— Michael Ondaatje

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

— Ray Bradbury

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of…

— Alice Morse Earle

Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug…

— Margaret Cho

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible…

— Edward Zwick

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely…

— Jehane Noujaim

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A…

— Chinua Achebe

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the…

— Trevor Cole

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I…

— Orson Scott Card

“That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.”

— Neil Gaiman

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

— Kim Kardashian

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story…

— Tom Hanks

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

— James Dyson

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

— Gary Crowley

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of…

— Sean Lennon

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

— Henry James

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a…

— Laurence Shames

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more…

— Stephen King

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

— Kabir Khan

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

— Byron Katie

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

— Steven Spielberg