Stories Quotes · Page 208

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

— Roger Schank

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

— Cristina Saralegui

“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.”

— Danielle Ganek

James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.

— T. J. MacGregor

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or…

— Neil Gaiman

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

— Sissy Spacek

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

— Jim Trelease

“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I…

— Chris Cleave

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's…

— Mike Mills

When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the…

— Graham King

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of…

— Anonymous

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what…

— Harry Chapin

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies!…

— Agatha Christie

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are…

— Byron Katie

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,…

— Laurence Sterne

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and…

— Peter Guber

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the…

— Jim Harrison

Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her…

— Eleanor Smeal

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl…

— Al Jaffee

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

— Vicky Kaushal

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

— David Alan Basche

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

— David Levithan

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so…

— Markus Zusak

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

— Charles Colson

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

— Vincent Schiavelli

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

— Peter Orner

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

— Steve Rushin

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for…

— Alia Shawkat

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

— Andy Andrews

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story...…

— Grey DeLisle

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

— Dorothy Fields

“If religion is understanding God in the collective stories of life, then spirituality is finding God in our own narrative.”

— H.L. Balcomb

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

— Romola Garai

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

— Chuck Palahniuk