Stories Quotes · Page 223

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

— James Lafferty

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

— Salman Rushdie

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

— Amy Hardie

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

— Laura Riding

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

— Shonda Rhimes

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

— Charles Yu

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

— Tom Peters

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood…

— Anne Tyler

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of…

— Kent Beck

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to…

— John Carpenter

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,…

— Anne Enright

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other.…

— Donna Tartt

The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's…

— Steven Pressfield

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical…

— Frank Lampard

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able…

— Jill Douglas

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered…

— Criss Jami

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking…

— Mark Zuckerberg

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the…

— Orson Scott Card

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his…

— Bill Watterson

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell.…

— Paul Neilan

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's…

— Rita Mae Brown

I have been married to my wife, Paula, for 25 years. We have wonderful kids. Things are - it's been a really…

— George Saunders

Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story…

— Afua Cooper

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

— Antonio Banderas

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

— Kaza Kingsley

I don't regret anything I've done. But all I have to show for it are stories.

— Michael Caputo

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that…

— Charles de Lint

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

— Byron Katie

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

— Laini Taylor

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[Cade Yeager] is like a man on the run which is fun, it's a bit of an adventure story.

— Mark Wahlberg

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea…

— Aaron Stanford

In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.

— Ken Paulson

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

— David McCullough

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

— Bob Woodward

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

— Paul Bettany

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

— Christina Dodd

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

— Joely Fisher

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

— Chuck Palahniuk