Stories Quotes · Page 214

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

— David Eddings

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

— Jon Stewart

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in…

— Garret Dillahunt

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

— C. S. Lewis

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

— Tobias Wolff

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

— Alex Pettyfer

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart…

— Peter Guber

Especially with 'Be Alright,' that's about a bunch of relationships and some people that I'd never even met, there was some stories…

— Dean Lewis

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story…

— Marjane Satrapi

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds…

— Anonymous

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't…

— Ruth Ozeki

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I…

— Josh Gad

I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound…

— Kate DiCamillo

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were…

— O. Henry

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The…

— Andy Stanley

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one…

— Anonymous

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.…

— Christine Jennings

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my…

— Max Landis

“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory…

— John Berger

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will…

— Carson McCullers

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

— Samuel Beckett

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

— Italo Calvino

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

— Chris Martin

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the…

— William Golding

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just…

— Orson Welles

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

— Erica Jong

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

— Gene Wolfe

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

— Volker Bertelmann

…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

— Seth Gordon

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story…

— Ferdie Pacheco

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

— Lisa Bonet

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that…

— Alice Lowe