Stories Quotes · Page 179

“A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.”

— Jonathan auxier

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

— Rick Ungar

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

— Sherwood Anderson

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash…

— William McKeen

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

— Dan Brown

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

— Rick Wakeman

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

— Mona Simpson

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It…

— Marion Dane Bauer

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it…

— Carl Sandburg

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your…

— Bruce Feiler

People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive…

— Bennett Miller

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but…

— James Patterson

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field…

— Nathan Wolfe

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the…

— Anonymous

“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business…

— Ondi Timoner

Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and…

— Tom Baker

My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are…

— Jeff Hardy

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's…

— Haruki Murakami

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every…

— Mem Fox

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was…

— Marina Warner

For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people…

— Karina Longworth

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a…

— Pema Chodron

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

— Anita Shreve

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Everyone had stories they told themselves to get through the days.”

— Lisa Ko

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

— Jordan Belfort

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

— Marjane Satrapi

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

— Michael Caine

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

— Helen Fielding

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

— Julian Assange

“...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion”

— Carmen Naranjo

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

— Stan Lee

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway