Stories Quotes · Page 166

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that…

— Henning Mankell

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

— Marc Andreessen

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

— Marion Cotillard

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

— Roberto Calasso

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

— Tana French

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

— Marguerite Moreau

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

— Richard Denney

There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work…

— Jimmy Fallon

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote…

— Harry Lloyd

The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete…

— Jonathan Chait

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what…

— Irene Cara

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if…

— Haruki Murakami

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a…

— Jonah Hill

I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form…

— Dudley Nichols

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as…

— Alain de Botton

One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going…

— George Saunders

This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come…

— Martha Stewart

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male…

— Megan Abbott

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into…

— Hideo Kojima

It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding…

— Dennis Green

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of…

— Rick Riordan

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

— Luanne Rice

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

— Sophie Blackall

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

— Vincente Minnelli

We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.

— Casey Hudson

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

— Christian McEwen

“He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always…

— Rinsai Rossetti

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

— Anna Todd

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

— Khaled Hosseini

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

— Cody Horn

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

— Joe Pantoliano

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

— James Nesbitt

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

— Rachel Cohn

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

— James Lee Burke

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from…

— Anthony Bourdain