Stories Quotes · Page 152

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

— Kate DiCamillo

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

— Douglas Adams

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to…

— Ken Follett

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

— Steve Buscemi

Being in love is such a nice feeling,and to be able to see that feeling on-screen is just nice, especially when it's…

— Emma Roberts

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

— Amy Sedaris

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

— Ringo Starr

Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete

— Claude C. Hopkins

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel…

— Haruki Murakami

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of…

— Dorothea Brande

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories…

— Carter G. Woodson

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you…

— Tate Taylor

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I…

— Lorrie Moore

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little…

— John Hodgman

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing…

— Annie Proulx

This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost…

— Pete Wentz

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,…

— Katherine Paterson

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be…

— Anonymous

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be…

— Quentin Tarantino

I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance,…

— Tim Foreman

[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost…

— John Darnielle

That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and…

— Lauren Oliver

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so…

— Cameron Dokey

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload…

— Jaron Lanier

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of…

— Brian McGinn

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

— Alex Tizon

My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

— Rihanna

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I…

— Bruno Mars

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

— Mae West

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

— Ryan Phillippe

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian…

— Rudy Wiebe

It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema.

— Justin Chadwick

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

— Jimmy Connors

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

— Paula Fox

“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.”

— FILM CRIT HULK