Stories Quotes · Page 196

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

— Kevin Spacey

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Caroline Thompson

“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”

— Slash Coleman

All the places I've been and things I've seen. A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams.

— Five Finger Death Punch

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

— Flannery O'Connor

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

— John Jackson Miller

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

— James Nicoll

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations…

— Marco Tempest

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because…

— Jeanette Winterson

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as…

— Erica Jong

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in…

— Nicholas Sparks

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had…

— Ruth Glick

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories,…

— Bipasha Basu

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story…

— Rebecca West

I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to…

— Penelope Cruz

I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that…

— Tom Odell

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been…

— Clifford Geertz

We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want…

— Park Dietz

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people…

— William J. Clinton

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million.…

— Yair Lapid

But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place…

— Kyra Zagorsky

Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously…

— Philip Gerard

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.…

— Lee Gutkind

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

— Zazie Beetz

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

— Lauren Myracle

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

— John Green

“I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.”

— Ken Poirot

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

— Miley Cyrus

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

— Ali Smith

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what…

— Colin Thubron

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back…

— Alison Pill

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

— Adam Page

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

— Caroline Dhavernas

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

— Antonia Thomas

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

— Arundhati Roy