Stories Quotes · Page 239

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

— Kate Forsyth

“Don’t you ever feel like you’re just a story someone is telling about someone like you?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

— George R. R. Martin

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops…

— Mary Norton

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

— Maurice Sendak

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

— Allan Gurganus

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

— Natalie Goldberg

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

— Colum McCann

“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light…

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else…

— Italo Calvino

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and…

— Junot Diaz

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain…

— Margaret Mitchell

It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies…

— Drew Waters

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most…

— Christopher Bollen

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are…

— Bertrand Russell

I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters…

— Scot Armstrong

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to…

— Ilan Stavans

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many…

— Mary Oliver

I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of…

— Bryan Fuller

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies.…

— Blake Mycoskie

I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a…

— Quentin Crisp

The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as…

— Frank Delaney

My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date…

— David Wroblewski

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into…

— Clive Barker

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

— Simon Sinek

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

— Karen Lord

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

— Tiger Woods

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

— Roxane Gay

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of…

— John C. McGinley

“Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.”

— Neil Gaiman

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

— Jimmy Buffett

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

— John Ortberg

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

— Gabrielle Zevin

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

— V. S. Pritchett

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for…

— Mark Hart

Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.

— Novalis

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

— Richard Linklater

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

— Andrew Davies