Stories Quotes · Page 143

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

— David McCullough

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

— Rashida Jones

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

— Yann Martel

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

— Sergio Aragones

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

— Rebel Wilson

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

— William Monahan

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

— Theresa Breslin

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through…

— Gary Reilly

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about…

— Kumail Nanjiani

My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending…

— M. Christina White

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our…

— Sarah Kay

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be…

— Ben Edlund

The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup…

— Zhang Xi

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you…

— William Campbell Gault

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my…

— Paula McLain

For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as…

— Joe Rogan

It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of…

— Alexander Skarsgard

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops…

— Nipsey Hussle

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when…

— Andy Rooney

If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just…

— Eva Fuka

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens…

— Dave Barry

Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the…

— William Greider

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

— Sloane Crosley

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and…

— Dwayne Johnson

“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

— Deanna Vasquez

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

— Simon Mainwaring

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

— Emily Procter

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

— Frank Darabont

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came…

— Catherine Deneuve

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

— Steven Knight

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and…

— Jazmine Sullivan

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the…

— Jonathan Sacks

I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

— Ram Charan

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

— Donald Miller

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made…

— Lana Del Rey

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write…

— Sara Shepard