Stories Quotes · Page 170

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

“Stories drag you through the mud of multiple emotions and through the thorn-tangle of thinky thoughts.”

— Chuck Wendig

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

— David Gemmell

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

— Rudyard Kipling

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in…

— Annie Barrows

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

— Errol Morris

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles…

— Judith Leiber

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're…

— Charlize Theron

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you…

— Sheena Iyengar

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will…

— Julius Lester

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice…

— Emma Roberts

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on…

— Graydon Carter

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church,…

— Tina Turner

“What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the…

— Katie Fforde

Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't…

— Rick Riordan

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady…

— George Will

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful…

— Jonathan Gottschall

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to…

— Emma Stone

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does…

— Q-Tip

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's…

— Annie Leonard

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin…

— Harrison Ford

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

— Stephen Schneider

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

— Dr. Seuss

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

— Richard Yates

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

— Seth Klarman

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

— Errol Morris

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

— Henry Louis Gates

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the…

— Sophie Calle

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

— Jack Kerouac

Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.

— Kevin DeYoung

The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while.

— Karl Iagnemma

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him…

— William H. Macy