Stories Quotes · Page 118

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no…

— Michael Azerrad

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

— Mary Hart

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional…

— Tayari Jones

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more…

— Alia Shawkat

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't…

— Gordon Allport

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon

I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

— Robert Greenblatt

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the…

— Anna Quindlen

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making…

— Emily Giffin

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical…

— Steve Vai

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what…

— Margaret Mahy

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or…

— Stan Lee

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or…

— John Noble

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people,…

— Joel Schumacher

“God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying…

— Shannon L. Alder

When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison,…

— Haruki Murakami

She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then…

— George Benjamin

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a…

— William Faulkner

Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future…

— Jack Kornfield

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love…

— Libba Bray

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

— Ang Lee

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

— Carl Sandburg

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

— Tori Spelling

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

— Katheryn Winnick

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

— Michael Hyatt

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

— Michael Schur

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

— Franz Liszt

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

— Patrick Ness

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

— John Steinbeck

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life…

— David Spade