Stories Quotes · Page 204

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be…

— Gary Lutz

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

— Dan Harmon

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

— Brian K. Vaughan

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

— Frank Moore Cross

I been in the streets for a long time. They know me. They see me. They heard stories.

— YG

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my…

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

— Vincente Minnelli

These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed…

— George W. Bush

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also…

— Virginia Henley

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time…

— Theodora Goss

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much…

— Vivian Mercer

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have…

— Aaron Koblin

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you…

— Taron Egerton

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to…

— Raymond Queneau

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with…

— Sarah Polley

“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close…

— Haruki Murakami

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they…

— William Greider

Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit…

— Dakota Fanning

Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that…

— Terence Winter

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons…

— Danah Zohar

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

— Kate DiCamillo

“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to…

— Anne Lamott

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

— Rumi

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

— Terry Pratchett

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our…

— Anonymous

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

— Salman Rushdie

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching…

— Lynn Johnston

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

— Karen Russell

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman…

— Brian Topp

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture…

— Paul Auster

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

— Mark Kostabi

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

— Peter Orner

Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.

— Dean Devlin