Stories Quotes · Page 178

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

— Jeremy Gutsche

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you…

— Flannery O'Connor

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

— Kelly Barnhill

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

— Sandra Bullock

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

— Khaled Hosseini

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

— Italo Calvino

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they…

— Ellen Schreiber

“The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet…

— Mary Papas

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer…

— Sergio Leone

My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch…

— Meg Cabot

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how…

— Catherine McCormack

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's…

— Junot Diaz

Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who…

— Walter Mosley

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people…

— Ann Beattie

It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything…

— Dennis O'Neil

I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love…

— Jeremy Irons

I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to…

— Justin Vernon

Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was…

— Junot Diaz

What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own…

— Harlan Coben

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and…

— Arundhati Roy

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase,…

— Anonymous

I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot…

— Neil Druckmann

“In seconds, the room flooded with wide-eyed girls wanting to meet the artist of the butterfly stories. Stories about healing and redemption.…

— Melanie Dobson

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

— Elif Safak

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

— Agatha Christie

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

— Joe Wright

Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.

— Rachel Roy

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

— Keri Russell

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

— Doris Lessing

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

— Chris Abani

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are…

— Darren Criss

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

— Michel de Certeau

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

— Komla Dumor

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make…

— Derek Waters

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

— Albert Brooks

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

— Marilyn Johnson

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

— Chinua Achebe