Stories Quotes · Page 184

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything…

— Morgan Freeman

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

— Guido Molinari

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually…

— Demetri Martin

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

— Sydney Pollack

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

— Joe McNally

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

— Seth Godin

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and…

— David Nevins

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he…

— Ed Wood

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that…

— Wallace Stegner

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.…

— Fredric Brown

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a…

— James Vance

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them,…

— Zephyr Teachout

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for…

— Emma Donoghue

I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual…

— Ruth E. Carter

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the…

— Ayn Rand

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting…

— Nina Tassler

I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the…

— Ben Lerner

It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John…

— Judd Nelson

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery…

— Chris Ware

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter…

— Suzanne Collins

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old…

— Paulo Coelho

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

— Sarah Bradford

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

— Hilary Mantel

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

— Kami Garcia

Akbar and Birbal stories have an instant connect with people of all ages.

— Kiku Sharda

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

— Patrick Ness

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

— Drake Doremus

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

— Danielle Trussoni

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

— Adrian Tomine

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

— Jenny Slate

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

— Sarah Dessen

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to…

— Kim Basinger

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

— Geoffrey Chaucer