Stories Quotes · Page 107

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

— Ray Bradbury

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

— David E. Kelley

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

— Nancy Duarte

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

— Christopher Atkins

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

— William Landay

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across…

— Phil Keoghan

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the…

— Jim Ferree

It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that.…

— Jessie Kahnweiler

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden…

— Djimon Hounsou

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn…

— Alejandro Zambra

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and…

— Paul Feig

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in…

— Kevin Keck

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a…

— Mitt Romney

I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes…

— Arthur Bradford

“Day 72 I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course,…

— Gemma Seltzer

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which…

— Megan Chance

Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many…

— T.C. Boyle

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…

— Willa Cather

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

— Reed Morano

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

— Terry Goodkind

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and…

— Jeff Grubb

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

— Karen Armstrong

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

— Anonymous

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

— Scott Turow

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

— Mary Lou Retton

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

— David Levithan

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

— Natalie Portman

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,…

— Alice Walker