Stories Quotes · Page 132

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

— Colum McCann

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as…

— Irvine Welsh

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

— Jabari Parker

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk…

— Anonymous

Man doesnt have time to read story books but always fall for Stories.

— KM II

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

— John Charles Polanyi

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women,…

— Sally Hawkins

I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the…

— Coco Jones

I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then…

— Norman Jewison

When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,…

— Len Wein

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories…

— Wes Craven

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in…

— Joss Whedon

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the…

— Seth Godin

I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.…

— Delphine de Vigan

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than…

— Sarah Polley

I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to…

— Stephen King

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative…

— Sam Keen

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus…

— Max Lucado

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems…

— Ron Rash

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

— Viggo Mortensen

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

— Beatrix Potter

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

— Phillip Knightley

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death…

— Peter Orner

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

— Chamillionaire

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

— Steven Moffat

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

— Margaret Cho

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

— Josh Hutcherson

“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

— Duff Goldman

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

— James Clavell

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin