Stories Quotes · Page 189

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

— Steven Moffat

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

— Chamillionaire

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

— Josh Hutcherson

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

— Margaret Cho

“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

— Duff Goldman

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

— James Clavell

“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't…

— Jim Woodring

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier…

— Leni Zumas

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of…

— Emma Goldman

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for…

— Maxine Greene

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down…

— Gabriel Campisi

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he…

— Jamie Cullum

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot…

— Alan Ritchson

I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that…

— Ellen Meloy

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle…

— Stefan Petrucha

Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence…

— George R. R. Martin

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have…

— Jose Saramago

had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them.…

— Joe Robert Cole

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That…

— Cate Marvin

What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that...when you impose…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.” I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

— Alma Alexander

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told…

— Fay Weldon

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

— Maeve Binchy

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

— Bonnie Bedelia

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

— Rush Limbaugh

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to…

— Jose Mourinho

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

— Angela Carter

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

— Christina Dodd

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

— Joely Fisher

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about…

— Norman Maclean

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and…

— Hedy Lamarr

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the…

— Etgar Keret

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm