Stories Quotes · Page 137

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

— Cormac McCarthy

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

— Jennifer Egan

People love miracles; they love stories which break through adversities.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

— Robin Williams

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford

I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow…

— Stacey Abrams

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the…

— Uwe Boll

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.…

— Ian Rankin

In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy…

— Stan Lee

The one difference between comics and, say, cinema or prose, is that you've only got so many pages, and publishers will work…

— Leah Moore

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health…

— Mike Johanns

I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I…

— Kelli O'Hara

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they…

— Terry Pratchett

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and…

— Clark Zlotchew

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on…

— Marjane Satrapi

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide…

— Tahir Shah

“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I…

— André Aciman

How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is…

— Annia Ciezadlo

There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a…

— Kevin Drew

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you,…

— Ronan Farrow

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because…

— Nora Ephron

Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like…

— Rick Riordan

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

— Rene Auberjonois

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

— Alan Cohen

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

— Brit Marling

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

— Thorne Smith

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in…

— Jonathan Demme

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

— Eli Wallach

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

— Craig Bierko

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

— Taika Waititi

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

— Philip Yancey

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

— Rachel Carson

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

— Kelly Ripa

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way…

— Natalia Tena

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

— Kobe Bryant

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...

— David Clement-Davies

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going…

— Rowan Atkinson