Stories Quotes · Page 224

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

— Rush Limbaugh

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

— Angela Carter

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to…

— Jose Mourinho

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

— Bonnie Bedelia

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

— Maeve Binchy

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

— James Clavell

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a…

— Nikki Giovanni

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my…

— Mindy Kaling

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't…

— Grete Waitz

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that…

— Eduardo Galeano

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from…

— David Gerrold

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before…

— Jon Weisman

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's…

— Roy Kesey

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion…

— Guy Pearce

I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some…

— Damon Lindelof

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page,…

— Darren Shan

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for…

— John Steinbeck

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,…

— Marisha Pessl

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a…

— Rick Santorum

It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about…

— Pat Robertson

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told…

— Fay Weldon

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

— Alma Alexander

“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

— Chamillionaire

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

— Steven Moffat

“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

— Duff Goldman

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

— Margaret Cho

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

— Josh Hutcherson

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death…

— Peter Orner

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

— Phillip Knightley

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

— John Charles Polanyi

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury