Stories Quotes · Page 126

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

— Aleatha Romig

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece…

— Theodore Sturgeon

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

— Nicholas Sparks

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure…

— Satish Kumar

I needed to share my stories with people on how I've gotten through the toughest times in life.

— Tabitha Brown

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

— David Burnett

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

— John Rae

The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn…

— Simon Anholt

The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as…

— Brander Matthews

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do…

— Q-Tip

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry…

— John Steinbeck

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the…

— Anonymous

I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are…

— Haruki Murakami

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want…

— Kevin Spacey

The song could start with a riff that I base the song around. Or a chord progression or a melody I have,…

— Orianthi

I mean, if it's worth a cover story that men and women are born different, what in the world must you believe…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it,…

— Ian MacKaye

As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to…

— Sergio Leone

Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.…

— Phillip E. Johnson

If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things…

— Polly Berrien Berends

When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was…

— Andrea Arnold

There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin…

— Phil Klay

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees,…

— Brian Ross

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't…

— Julie Taymor

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

— Leah Stewart

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

— Kevin Spacey

“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”

— Slash Coleman

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Caroline Thompson

All the places I've been and things I've seen. A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams.

— Five Finger Death Punch

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

— John Jackson Miller

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

— Flannery O'Connor

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with…

— Lynn Abbey

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the…

— Jack Kornfield