Stories Quotes · Page 148

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of…

— Quentin Tarantino

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

— Gabriel Mann

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

— Ann Voskamp

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

— Scott Hastie

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

— David Levithan

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing…

— Marc E. Platt

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

— Taylor Swift

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my…

— Hugh Howey

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you…

— Walter Moers

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think…

— John Green

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life,…

— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a…

— Haile Gerima

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique…

— Leonard Wolf

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that…

— Connie Britton

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his…

— James Payn

What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a…

— Libba Bray

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The Quran mentions the story of Moses and Khidr [a prophet mentioned in the Quran who guided Moses on a revelatory journey],…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but…

— Terry Pratchett

In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be…

— Greg Koukl

The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in…

— Raymond Chandler

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…

— Michel de Certeau

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story…

— James Herbert

“I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what…

— Elizabeth Wein

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the…

— Peter Gabriel

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

— Ben Harper

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

— Jackie DeShannon

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page…

— Bob Goff

Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.

— Chamillionaire

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

— Neil LaBute

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

— Chris Cleave

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

— Gabrielle Aplin

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

— Millicent Simmonds

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

— Danny Huston

I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.

— Zeenat Aman

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

— Emmylou Harris