Stories Quotes · Page 177

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

— Edward Everett Hale

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the…

— Garth Nix

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

“You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.”

— Edwidge Danticat

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make…

— Salman Rushdie

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand…

— Wilbur Smith

The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all…

— Scott Rudin

There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,…

— Neil Gaiman

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…

— Tim O'Brien

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines…

— Anna Godbersen

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…

— M. John Harrison

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can…

— Pat Conroy

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try…

— George Saunders

Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's…

— Mia Freedman

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I…

— Frank Zappa

I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about…

— Danny Pudi

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of…

— James Patterson

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which…

— Alice Hoffman

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by…

— Doris Lessing

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome…

— Lenora Crichlow

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

— Jane Yolen

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

— Peter Schiff

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go…

— Ndamukong Suh

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

— Anonymous

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

— Ian Mcewan

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

— Stephen King

“As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes…

— Heidi W. Durrow

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

— Hans Christian Andersen

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

— Joey Skaggs

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

— Soledad O'Brien

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going…

— Stephen King