Stories Quotes · Page 130

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

— Rick Riordan

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

— Donald Sadoway

Some of the biggest hits have had simple stories narrated beautifully.

— Shriya Saran

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We…

— Frank Spotnitz

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

— Anish Kapoor

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that…

— Michael Morpurgo

“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've…

— Duncan Jones

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being…

— Brené Brown

My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers…

— Trista Sutter

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that…

— Kamila Shamsie

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.…

— Gene Wolfe

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

— Joyce Maynard

Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts…

— Ian Stewart

The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a…

— Christopher Ricks

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him…

— Aravind Adiga

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...…

— William S. Burroughs

In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect…

— Colson Whitehead

And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters.…

— William Devane

My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I…

— Bonnie McFarlane

Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,…

— Jeanette Winterson

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and…

— Hedy Lamarr

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about…

— Norman Maclean

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the…

— Etgar Keret

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

— Jim Harrison

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

— Evangeline Lilly

“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward one inevitable conclusion”

— E.J. Patten

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can…

— Brian Selznick

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but…

— Javier Marías

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

— Byron Katie

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.”

— Susan Fletcher

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

— Phil Keoghan

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

— Sandra Brown

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

— Ben Okri