Stories Quotes · Page 172

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.

— Chamillionaire

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page…

— Bob Goff

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

— Chris Cleave

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

— Neil LaBute

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

— Gabrielle Aplin

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

— Millicent Simmonds

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

— Danny Huston

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes…

— Jerry Pournelle

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting…

— Kiefer Sutherland

For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really…

— Edward Norton

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an…

— David Lloyd

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in…

— Harlan Coben

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the…

— John Darnielle

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want…

— Melanie Benjamin

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living…

— Italo Calvino

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful…

— Alafair Burke

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the…

— Eric Stoltz

Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of…

— Julian Schnabel

I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts,…

— Omari Hardwick

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these…

— DJ Qualls

It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty

I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.

— Zeenat Aman

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

— Emmylou Harris

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

— Cory Doctorow

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in…

— Jeff Bridges

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

— Tom Hanks

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

— Debra Winger

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

— Errol Morris

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

— George Lucas

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

— Kate Thompson

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create…

— Michael Morpurgo

“We all have stories, and sometimes no matter the subject, we just need to share them.”

— Alexandria Rhodes

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop…

— Morley Callaghan