Stories Quotes · Page 187

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was…

— Gene Wilder

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

— Richard Koch

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

— Q-Tip

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

— Rosario Dawson

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

— Anonymous

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

— Tom Clancy

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

— David McCullough

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

— Ken Paulson

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and…

— Caroline Sunshine

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or…

— Brad Pitt

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough…

— Jimmy Buffett

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans…

— Janet Mock

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in…

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story…

— Mary J. Miller

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because…

— Vivienne Westwood

I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I…

— Kerry James Marshall

The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so…

— Andre Holland

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and…

— Nick Earls

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those…

— Spencer W. Kimball

There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's…

— Pam Houston

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that…

— Truman Capote

I get up in front of a bunch of kids and say 'Hey, I'm gonna tell you a new story. Who wants…

— Robert Munsch

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

— Paul Bettany

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

— Bob Woodward

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea…

— Aaron Stanford

[Cade Yeager] is like a man on the run which is fun, it's a bit of an adventure story.

— Mark Wahlberg

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

— Laini Taylor

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

— Kaza Kingsley

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

— Antonio Banderas

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

— Tom Peters

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

— Byron Katie

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that…

— Charles de Lint

I don't regret anything I've done. But all I have to show for it are stories.

— Michael Caputo

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

— Salman Rushdie

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

— Charles Yu

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

— Shonda Rhimes