Stories Quotes · Page 123

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is…

— Linda Ellerbee

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

— J.A. Redmerski

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

— John Lasseter

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

— Margot Asquith

“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.”

— Mike Carey

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

— Lizzie Brochere

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

— Robin Leach

I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it…

— Sharon Jones

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story…

— Ron Howard

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to…

— Deborah Reber

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone…

— Harmony Korine

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of…

— Kevin Spacey

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that…

— Eric Stoltz

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a…

— George R. R. Martin

Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on…

— Muhammad Ali

“In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very…

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.…

— Shannon Hale

When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or…

— David Lynch

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences…

— Robbie Robertson

It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We…

— Jen Hatmaker

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

— Gina Barreca

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

— Dale Archer

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

— Kevin Spacey

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

— Haruki Murakami

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

— Joe Murray

There's all sorts of stories about me. I've stopped listening to them. You've got to laugh at them, really.

— Shaun Ryder

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and…

— Robert McKee

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

— Norman Chad

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

— David S. Goyer

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

— Jonathan Kent

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire…

— Mike White

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

— David Byrne

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.

— Robert McKee

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story…

— Sarah Dessen

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

— Taylor Swift

“They say there are three kinds of people in the world: those who listen to stories, those who tell them, and those…

— Claire Fayers