Stories Quotes · Page 238

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

— Sarah Dessen

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

— Jenny Slate

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to…

— Kim Basinger

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

— Adrian Tomine

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

— Danielle Trussoni

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

— Patrick Ness

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come…

— Natalie Portman

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense…

— Sara Sheridan

I think it's very interesting how an American network chooses to tell this story. We don't name one country the good guy…

— Demian Bichir

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny…

— Ciaran Hinds

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More…

— Matt Drudge

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's…

— Nancy Kress

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of…

— Hayao Miyazaki

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles,…

— Reese Witherspoon

I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your…

— Toni Morrison

It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to…

— Scott D. Anthony

I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and…

— Hiroshi Yamauchi

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then…

— Porochista Khakpour

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as…

— Donna Tartt

I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a…

— Drew Magary

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English…

— Theodora Goss

Akbar and Birbal stories have an instant connect with people of all ages.

— Kiku Sharda

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

— Kami Garcia

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

— Hilary Mantel

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

— Drake Doremus

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

— Tom Clancy

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

— Anonymous

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

— Rosario Dawson

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy,…

— Frederik Pohl

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

— Donald Miller

Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

— Stephen King

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

— Q-Tip

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

— Richard Koch

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was…

— Gene Wilder

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

— Marie Howe

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

— Etgar Keret