Stories Quotes · Page 133

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told…

— Fay Weldon

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

— Alma Alexander

“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

— Maeve Binchy

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

— Bonnie Bedelia

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have…

— T.C. Boyle

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me…

— Octavia Butler

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are…

— Ed Mayo

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But…

— John Steinbeck

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

— Jim Morrison

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,…

— Tupac Shakur

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a…

— Mitch Albom

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and…

— Charles Kingsley

We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it.…

— Liz Cheney

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for…

— Bill Moyers

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end…

— Chuck Klosterman

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical…

— John Amos Comenius

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to…

— Jose Mourinho

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

— Angela Carter

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

— Christina Dodd

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

— Joely Fisher

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

— David McCullough

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

— Ken Paulson

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

— Bob Woodward

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

— Paul Bettany

[Cade Yeager] is like a man on the run which is fun, it's a bit of an adventure story.

— Mark Wahlberg

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea…

— Aaron Stanford

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

— Laini Taylor

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

— Kaza Kingsley

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

— Tom Peters

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

— Antonio Banderas

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

— Byron Katie