Stories Quotes · Page 151

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

— John Steinbeck

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

— Debby Ryan

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

— DJ Spooky

“Even though there are really no original themes or stories to tell, it's more about the way you tell the story.”

— Nancy Wilson- Heart

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and…

— Adam Sandler

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're…

— Robert McKee

The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor,…

— Tilda Swinton

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused…

— Charles Kuralt

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more…

— William Shakespeare

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;…

— Paula Danziger

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of…

— Jean M. Auel

Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they…

— Derek Sivers

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on…

— Anonymous

Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,…

— Roy Kesey

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in…

— Gerard Butler

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't…

— Adam Frank

Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and…

— Michael Arnzen

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.…

— Tom Waits

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's…

— Gregory Crewdson

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

— Joshuah Bearman

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

— Max Barry

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

— Max Irons

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

— Charles Hard Townes

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

— Shirley Williams

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

— George Saunders

“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.”

— Jane Davenport Platko

“Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.”

— Anonymous

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

— Brené Brown

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

— Laurence Overmire

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

— Vincent Piazza

“Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.”

— Chuck Wendig

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

— Emma Stone

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

— Marie Windsor