Stories Quotes · Page 230

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of…

— Leah Stewart

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

— Tatyana Ali

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

— Tim O'Brien

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

— Chris Bohjalian

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

— Om Puri

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with…

— Lynn Abbey

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the…

— Jack Kornfield

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to…

— Eudora Welty

How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories…

— Douglas Coupland

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories,…

— Dario Argento

“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like…

— Haruki Murakami

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For…

— Michael J Cohen

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He…

— Cam Newton

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our…

— Helen Dunmore

It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and…

— Macaulay Culkin

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban…

— Khaled Hosseini

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most…

— Connie Willis

They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will…

— Henry David Thoreau

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,…

— Daniel Alarcon

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell…

— Ben Kingsley

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be…

— John Musker

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion”

— Carmen Naranjo

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

— Stan Lee

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

— Michael Caine

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

— Marjane Satrapi

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

— Jordan Belfort

“Everyone had stories they told themselves to get through the days.”

— Lisa Ko

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

— Julian Assange