Stories Quotes · Page 156

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

— Nicholas Sparks

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

— Italo Calvino

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own…

— Sonia Rykiel

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

— Demi Lovato

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

— Beth Ditto

For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the…

— Xavier Gens

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details…

— Richard Flanagan

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling…

— Drew Roy

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make…

— Adriana Trigiani

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we…

— Paul Bloom

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made…

— Elaine Pagels

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on…

— Satyajit Ray

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can…

— Guillermo del Toro

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me…

— Keanu Reeves

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000…

— Trevor Treharne

Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and…

— Charles Simic

Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah,…

— Trey Parker

“Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of…

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the…

— John Connolly

I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men…

— Lana Del Rey

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third…

— Cillian Murphy

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

— Kristin Chenoweth

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

— Edward R. Murrow

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I…

— Brent Runyon

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

— Michael Hyatt

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

— Jonathan Carroll

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own…

— Donald Miller

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

— Jean Houston

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make…

— Bill Cosby

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

— Alan Greenspan

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

— Charlize Theron

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

— Claude C. Hopkins

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

— Vincente Minnelli

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

— Jennifer Weiner

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

— Daniel Kahneman