Stories Quotes · Page 218

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

— Neil Gaiman

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

— Vera Nazarian

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

— Isak Dinesen

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

— John Cheever

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

— Ernest Hemingway

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

— Brandon Mull

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

— Christina Ricci

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or…

— Ai Weiwei

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new -…

— Catherine Hardwicke

My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music…

— Adrian Marcel

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that…

— John Irving

My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some…

— Andrew Luck

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the…

— Soledad O'Brien

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,…

— Charles Fort

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put…

— Louise Erdrich

I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live…

— William Kittredge

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can…

— George Saunders

He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave…

— K.J. Parker

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

— Ellie Goulding

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't…

— Andrew Wyeth

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

— Jorie Graham

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

— William Bennett

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

— Neil Gaiman

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

— Willem Dafoe

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

— Anonymous

I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.

— Mitt Romney

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

— Ted Koppel

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

— Fredric Wertham

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under…

— Darren Shan

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in…

— Jason Rezaian