Stories Quotes · Page 127

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

— Chris Bohjalian

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

— Om Puri

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

— Tatyana Ali

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

— Tim O'Brien

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

— Rachel Cusk

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into…

— Bill W

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down -…

— Dan Chaon

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self…

— Michael Meade

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things…

— Lena Waithe

“We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our…

— Melina Marchetta

Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies.…

— Josh Peck

You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as…

— Danny Boyle

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of…

— John Shelby Spong

There's something special about working with picture and adding music to picture that really takes you to a whole new level. It's…

— Lior Ron

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people…

— Nas

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early…

— Michelle Magorian

“She tried to slip out of his embrace without waking him up, but she felt him stir as she moved his hand.…

— Arti Honrao

We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the…

— Paul Washer

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of…

— Jane Pauley

A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to…

— Karan Bajaj

I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing…

— Susan Sarandon

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of…

— Leah Stewart

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

— Scilla Elworthy

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

— Annie Proulx

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

— Carsten Jensen

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

— Clint Eastwood

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

— Carolyn Porco

“Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories…

— Mia Wasikowska

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

— James A. Michener

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

— Stephen King

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and…

— James Maslow

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get…

— Dodie Smith