Stories Quotes · Page 228

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

— Washington Irving

“Create stories that will leave an everlasting impression even when you are not around to tell it”

— Marie Guillaume

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

— Cheryl Strayed

One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

— Ram Charan

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

— Laura Hillenbrand

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

— Elbert Hubbard

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

— Roger Ross Williams

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and…

— Katie Aselton

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely…

— Anonymous

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff.…

— Ray Bradbury

Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental…

— Frederick C. Beiser

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their…

— Andre Dubus

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was…

— Todd Solondz

If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I…

— Rick Riordan

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was…

— Phillip Noyce

[Drizzy] ,it was dope. A great experience, especially with the topic he was talking about and to be... organic.I'm glad that it…

— Kendrick Lamar

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer…

— David Leavitt

Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Scientifically, I know beginnings don't exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything she is was…

— Anonymous

To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always…

— Kevin Brooks

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and…

— Mary Oliver

“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of…

— Joseph Brodsky

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

— Jon Jones

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

— Joyce Maynard

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I…

— Georgia Cates

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about…

— Rob Bell

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

— Brendan Benson

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over…

— Ashley Greene

“Stories (not ideas, not features, not benefits) are what spread from person to person.”

— Seth Godin

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

— Ian Mcewan

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

— Steve Dildarian

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines…

— Pamela Yates

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an…

— Penny Marshall

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

— Christopher Nolan

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

— Sylvester Stallone

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after…

— Joe Scarborough

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

— Mabel Cheung