Stories Quotes · Page 161

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

— Monica Lewinsky

“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.”

— Michael Lister

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

— Jennifer Nettles

“These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life.”

— Téa Obreht

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories…

— Naima Adedapo

I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound…

— Vera Nazarian

Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to…

— Cecelia Ahern

Bullingdon would never go co-ed. I'm not going to give anything away, but there are a couple of girls involved in our…

— Max Irons

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's…

— Denise Mina

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't…

— Frank Deford

Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her…

— Judy Collins

The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.…

— Martin Sheen

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,…

— Graham Hancock

My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session…

— Nat Hentoff

You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff…

— Paul Feig

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write…

— Anonymous

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way…

— Chinua Achebe

“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to…

— Karen Blixen

The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a…

— Chinua Achebe

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that…

— Joe Hill

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

— Christina Baldwin

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

— Greg Koukl

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

“This world isn’t nearly as chaotic as our minds. Maybe that is why we tell stories.”

— Mitali Meelan

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

— Brené Brown

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of…

— Bebe

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

— Damian Lewis

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer…

— Jim Woodring

Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create your own story.

— Anonymous

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

— Uwe Boll

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

— Robin Sharma

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Every song has a story.. so that means every person has a song to sing

— Mandi