Stories Quotes · Page 113

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

— Wally Pfister

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…

— Graham Greene

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

— John Irving

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to…

— Cornell Capa

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this…

— Roland Joffe

I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight…

— Laurel Nakadate

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger…

— Lewis Schiff

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and…

— Caroline Sunshine

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or…

— Brad Pitt

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough…

— Jimmy Buffett

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans…

— Janet Mock

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell.…

— Paul Neilan

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his…

— Bill Watterson

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole…

— Eda LeShan

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has…

— John Lasseter

I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It…

— Garry Marshall

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.…

— David Oyelowo

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the…

— John Updike

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,…

— Colleen McCullough

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will…

— Cody Simpson

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

— Helen Keller

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take…

— Tucker Max

“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”

— Christopher Moore

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like…

— Anonymous

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out…

— Hunter S. Thompson

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

— Damian Lewis

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer…

— Jim Woodring

Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create your own story.

— Anonymous

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

— Robin Sharma

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

— Uwe Boll

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of…

— Bebe