Stories Quotes · Page 141

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high…

— Laozi

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?

— Vera Wang

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as…

— Elizabeth Bowen

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I…

— Adam Driver

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

— Ray McKinnon

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my…

— Tina St. John

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as…

— Eugene Mirman

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying…

— Stockwell Day

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

— Howard Barker

I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their…

— Denise Mina

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and…

— Philip Gerard

I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then…

— Hayley Williams

I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but…

— Mary J. Miller

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick…

— Rian Johnson

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of…

— Yann Martel

There was a lot of expectations and pressure on the first one, because the fanbase is pretty big, when we were shooting…

— Peter Facinelli

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and…

— Primo Levi

I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of…

— Colman Domingo

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure…

— Stan Lee

“When the stories were over, four or five of us walked out the home of our host. The surrounding land, in the…

— Barry Lopez

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

— Bob Kane

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

— Dominique McElligott

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by…

— Frances Power Cobbe

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

— Robert McKee

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

— Nell Freudenberger

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

— Kurt Vonnegut

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

— Toby Keith

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

— John Green

You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.

— Declan Shalvey

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain, I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty…

— Anonymous

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

— Yehuda Bauer

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

I do feel like there's this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That's the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to…

— Melissa Harris-Perry