Stories Quotes · Page 160

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take…

— Tucker Max

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

— Helen Keller

“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”

— Christopher Moore

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

— John Irving

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…

— Graham Greene

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for…

— Karen Allen

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple…

— Matt Taibbi

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's…

— Dave Attell

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some…

— George Saunders

In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…

— Paul Theroux

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For…

— George Saunders

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be…

— Anna Friel

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at…

— Alan Lightman

I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a…

— Tim DeKay

I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the…

— Donald Miller

I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn…

— Nancy O'Dell

[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella…

— Rick Riordan

Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down…

— Greg Koukl

The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence…

— Arthur Bradford

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they…

— Anonymous

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to…

— Cornell Capa

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will…

— Cody Simpson

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

— John Berger

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work…

— Thomas Jane

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

— Laura Riding

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

— Wally Pfister

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

— Brian Weiss

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

— Lee Child

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

— Michelle Beadle

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

— Tim O'Brien