Stories Quotes · Page 145

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

— Atul Gawande

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

— Jon M. Chu

I started a blog for my stories. Copy this link if interested>> http://jadeswastedwords.blogspot.com/

— Jade

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or…

— Michael Morpurgo

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”

— Patti Callahan

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

— Jacob Gates

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious…

— Susan Estrich

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court…

— Ben Mezrich

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version.…

— Walter Isaacson

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't…

— Yann Martel

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our…

— Novak Djokovic

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going.…

— Bill Harley

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he…

— Jay Asher

I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would…

— Danielle Dutton

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world…

— Charles de Lint

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes,…

— Trevor Noah

None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is…

— Edmund Crispin

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the…

— Mel Brooks

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance…

— Terence Winter

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you…

— James Ellroy

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

— Meg Cabot

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so…

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be…

— Kate Winslet

“I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of…

— Mohsin Hamid

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

— Dane Cook

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

— Evelyn Keyes

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're…

— Natalie Portman

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

— Max Lucado

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

— Tobias Wolff

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

— Byron Katie

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

— Richard Linklater

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would…

— Keri Russell

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

— Kent Beck

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

— Gish Jen

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

— Cheryl Strayed