Stories Quotes · Page 225

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

— Viggo Mortensen

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

— Beatrix Potter

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

— Jabari Parker

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk…

— Anonymous

Man doesnt have time to read story books but always fall for Stories.

— KM II

All the places I've been and things I've seen. A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams.

— Five Finger Death Punch

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more…

— Steven Knight

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down.…

— Stephen Graham Jones

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with…

— Terry Southern

“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example,…

— Judith Hayes

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister.…

— Stewart Udall

“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they…

— Charbel Tadros

“People have always wanted to in some way inhabit the stories that move them. The only real variable is whether technology gives…

— Frank Rose

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,…

— Colleen McCullough

I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It…

— Garry Marshall

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has…

— John Lasseter

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole…

— Eda LeShan

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the…

— John Updike

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.…

— David Oyelowo

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,…

— Jasper Fforde

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

— John Jackson Miller

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”

— Slash Coleman

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Caroline Thompson

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

— Leah Stewart

War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

— John Rae

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't…

— Julie Taymor

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

— Kevin Spacey

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

— David Burnett

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

— Aleatha Romig

I needed to share my stories with people on how I've gotten through the toughest times in life.

— Tabitha Brown

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece…

— Theodore Sturgeon

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

— Nicholas Sparks