Stories Quotes · Page 139

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

— Willem Dafoe

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

— Neil Gaiman

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

— Christina Ricci

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

— Ernest Hemingway

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

— Brandon Mull

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in…

— David Duchovny

Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning…

— J. C. Hutchins

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes…

— Dani Shapiro

We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With…

— Esai Morales

It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely…

— Alexei Panshin

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked…

— Chester Brown

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark…

— Julie Mehretu

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with…

— Gary Coleman

I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't…

— Marie Calloway

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule…

— John Irving

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as…

— George Saunders

The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was…

— Anthony Marra

“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even…

— Alice W. Flaherty

I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and…

— Channing Tatum

As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I…

— Cory Trepanier

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we…

— Barbara Kruger

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't…

— Andrew Wyeth

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

— Jorie Graham

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

— Ellie Goulding

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

— Isak Dinesen

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

— John Cheever

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

— Vera Nazarian

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

— Rocco DiSpirito

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

— Seth Rogen

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

— Jodi Picoult

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

— Helen Dunmore

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

— Neil Gaiman

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

— Michael Scott