Stories Quotes · Page 150

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

— Jack Kerouac

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the…

— Sophie Calle

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

— Henry Louis Gates

Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.

— Kevin DeYoung

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what…

— Michael Pollan

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him…

— William H. Macy

The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while.

— Karl Iagnemma

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

— Nan Fairbrother

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -…

— Julianna Baggott

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all…

— Octavia E. Butler

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted…

— Terry Pratchett

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're…

— Clive Owen

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps…

— T Bone Burnett

Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped…

— Doug Stanhope

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative…

— Dana Spiotta

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

— Adria Petty

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit…

— Wilbur Smith

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have…

— Julian Barnes

The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking.…

— Tucker Max

I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they…

— Lewis Schiff

Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve…

— Susan Cain

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story…

— Doris Lessing

I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and…

— Keanu Reeves

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their…

— Delia Sherman

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.”

— Tori Amos

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

— Ani DiFranco

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

— Bill O'Reilly

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

— Elie Wiesel

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

— Anthony de Mello

True love stories should never have a happy ending, because true love stories never end.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

— David Selby

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

— Agnes Varda

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

— Ethan Zuckerman

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think…

— Anne Sexton

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of…

— Kate DiCamillo