Stories Quotes · Page 124

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do;…

— Thomas Hardy

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

— Vanna Bonta

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

— Lauren Myracle

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

— James Nicoll

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

— Zazie Beetz

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want…

— Jorge Garcia

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should…

— Chester Himes

I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate…

— Daniel Radcliffe

In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic… Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at…

— M. G. Vassanji

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing…

— Daniel Woodrell

We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening…

— Robert Orben

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your…

— Richard Dawkins

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're…

— John Corbett

I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature…

— William P. Young

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing…

— Flannery O'Connor

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill…

— George Harrison

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All…

— Cameron Dokey

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are…

— Krista Tippett

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough…

— Terry Pratchett

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden…

— Keegan Allen

I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to…

— Dan Chaon

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

— John Green

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

— Miley Cyrus

“I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.”

— Ken Poirot

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

— Ali Smith

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back…

— Alison Pill

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what…

— Colin Thubron

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

— Adam Page

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

— Caroline Dhavernas

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

— Antonia Thomas

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

— Arundhati Roy

As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of…

— Phoebe Robinson

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and…

— Mizuki Nomura

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

— Frank Knox