Stories Quotes · Page 185

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

— Pete Seeger

Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it

— Demi Lovato

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

— Anonymous

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

— Thomas Keller

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

— Malala Yousafzai

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

— Richard Wright

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy…

— Chris Carter

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or…

— Grant Morrison

I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not…

— Saya Woolfalk

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot,…

— Evangeline Lilly

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my…

— Robert Crais

I hope that the day will come when the system will change and all of the people in Ethiopia will have equal…

— Feyisa Lilesa

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to…

— Saul Williams

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an…

— Robert Aris Willmott

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,…

— H. G. Wells

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we…

— Sayed Kashua

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But…

— Sarah Jio

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are…

— Steven Moffat

Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't…

— Jenji Kohan

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if…

— Susan Sontag

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story…

— Melody Beattie

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

— Anne Rice

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

— David Nutter

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

— Jerry Leiber

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

— Jon Heder

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to…

— Victoria Abril

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

— Stan Freberg

“Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.”

— Paul Cornell

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

— Judy Blume

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

— Scarlett Pomers

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little…

— Julia Child

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

— Adrienne Rich

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

— Christian Louboutin

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin