Stories Quotes · Page 153

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a…

— John Carpenter

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

— Anne-Marie Duff

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

— Patrick Ness

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

— Marley Dias

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

— Edward Abbey

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

— Michael Skolnik

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

— Cameron Crowe

Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost…

— Thomas Sowell

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

— A'Lelia Bundles

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas.…

— Evan Rachel Wood

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these…

— James Payn

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just…

— Dan Stevens

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But…

— Chris Tucker

Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I…

— Shawn Michaels

The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day…

— David Emerald Womeldorff

“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other…

— Brittany Murphy

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At…

— A. A. Gill

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

— P. T. Barnum

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus.

— Bill Hicks

Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

— Mike Murdock

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

— William Shakespeare

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”

— Tom Spanbauer

Some stories are meant to be experienced by everyone and language and culture are no bar.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

— Edge

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

— Tina Turner

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

— Karen Lord

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

— Michael Helm

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

— Wally Lamb

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his…

— Elsa Lanchester

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

— Beverly Cleary

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

— Neil Gaiman

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino