Stories Quotes · Page 192

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

— Erica Schroeder

“I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.”

— Jeanne Voelker

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

— Anonymous

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

— Rick Riordan

Some of the biggest hits have had simple stories narrated beautifully.

— Shriya Saran

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

— Donald Sadoway

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short…

— Zadie Smith

When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life.…

— Deepika Padukone

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're…

— Michael Hastings

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find…

— Conrad Veidt

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional…

— M. Night Shyamalan

We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him…

— Neal Stephenson

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the…

— Black Elk

It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring…

— David Maraniss

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child.…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with…

— Daniel Coyle

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is…

— Adam Richman

There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in…

— Henri Nouwen

International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

“Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what…

— Patrick Ness

“When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't…

— Etgar Keret

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…

— Anton Chekhov

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We…

— Frank Spotnitz

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

— Anish Kapoor

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get…

— Dodie Smith

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and…

— James Maslow

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

— Sylvester Stallone

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

— Christopher Nolan

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

— Anonymous

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

— Robert J. Shiller

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

— Melanie Laurent

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it…

— Ingrid Bergman

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

— Jamie Lee Curtis