Stories Quotes · Page 142

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

— Lena Dunham

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

— E. O. Wilson

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

— Chinua Achebe

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use…

— Tracy Letts

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

— Alberto Manguel

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's…

— Kevin O'Leary

I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to…

— Stephen Hawking

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing…

— Eli Pariser

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great…

— Jim Toomey

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge…

— Roger Deakins

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is…

— Robert Morgan

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the…

— Laurence Shames

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student…

— Sandra Fluke

“For weeks Octavio returned to the shelter of the trees. The woman would appear as the sun reached midday. She would walk…

— C.S. Richardson

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to…

— Catherine Brady

How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;…

— Laura Riding

I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point,…

— George Lucas

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a…

— Gagan Narang

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in…

— Lorrie Moore

We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a…

— Thomas L. Thompson

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it,…

— Chris Noth

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their…

— Maureen Corrigan

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

— Eugene H. Peterson

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

— Jonathan Maberry

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

— David Copperfield

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time.…

— Kate Winslet

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

— Jose Andres

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

— Steve Grand

“Every human being is a series of stories; it’s nice when someone wants to hear a new one.”

— Victor LaValle

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

— Terence McKenna

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

— Robert E. Sherwood

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

— Timothy Radcliffe

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

— Nadine Gordimer

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word…

— Luc Sante