Stories Quotes · Page 111

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

— Claire Tomalin

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

— Donald Miller

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

— John Flanagan

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

— Claude C. Hopkins

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

— Charlize Theron

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

— Vincente Minnelli

It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring…

— David Maraniss

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just…

— Judd Apatow

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it…

— Tennessee Williams

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that…

— Brené Brown

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't…

— Jim Woodring

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier…

— Leni Zumas

If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there…

— George Saunders

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things…

— Stephen King

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs…

— Eileen Myles

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some…

— Damon Lindelof

I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion…

— Guy Pearce

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for…

— John Steinbeck

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page,…

— Darren Shan

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

— Daniel Kahneman

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

— Jennifer Weiner

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

— Carrie Fisher

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

— W. G. Sebald

Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

— Brad Meltzer

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise…

— Alistair Begg

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

— Timothy Radcliffe

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

— Roy Eldridge

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

— Steven Shainberg

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

— Morgan Parker

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

— Pawel Pawlikowski