Stories Quotes · Page 116

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

— Joe McNally

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old…

— Paulo Coelho

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

— Sarah Bradford

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

— Julie Schumacher

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

— Jessica Fellowes

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.…

— David Lynch

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are…

— Neil Gaiman

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa,…

— Athol Fugard

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever.…

— Marguerite Duras

I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming…

— Shelley Hennig

“Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning,…

— Selena Kitt

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're…

— Fareed Zakaria

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use…

— Elie Wiesel

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our…

— John Frederick Nims

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased…

— Anonymous

If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of…

— Elie Wiesel

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn…

— Jane Yolen

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this.…

— Alice Munro

We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need…

— Velcrow Ripper

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's…

— Leslie Jamison

“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page”

— Cornelia Funke

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

— Sherwood Smith

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

— Ron Howard

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

— Shannon Hale

“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”

— Tahereh Mafi

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will…

— Jon Jones

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

— Philip Pullman

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

— James Taylor

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

— William Zinsser

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

— Elizabeth Moon

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live:…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they…

— Robert Breault

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

— Bruce Springsteen

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

— Zoe Weil

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles