Stories Quotes · Page 121

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

— Helen Fielding

“...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion”

— Carmen Naranjo

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

— Stan Lee

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

— Andrew Stanton

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in…

— Moran Atias

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for…

— Dennis Muren

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before…

— Clement Greenberg

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better…

— Lev Grossman

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if…

— Tennessee Williams

Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story…

— Jeff Britting

It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps…

— Marie Rutkoski

Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an…

— Owen Wilson

I believe in love — yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love. I went out with…

— Anonymous

The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,…

— Meryl Streep

I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal.…

— G.M.B. Akash

There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky…

— Roberto Benigni

It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for…

— DJ Spooky

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it…

— Christopher Moore

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way…

— Ice T

There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.

— Gigi Hadid

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

— Edward Everett Hale

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the…

— Garth Nix

“You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.”

— Edwidge Danticat

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome…

— Lenora Crichlow

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

— Jane Yolen

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

— Peter Schiff

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go…

— Ndamukong Suh