Stories Quotes · Page 60

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

— Leonard Michaels

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

— Alyson Noel

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.”

— Sara Sheridan

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

— Art Alexakis

“They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell”

— Jeremy Aldana

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

— David Grann

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

— Steven Knight

“Stories aren't always told on paper, sometimes they are imprinted on the skin...forever..”

— Zoey Sweete

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

— Seth

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

— Robert T. Bakker

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but…

— Lauren Oliver

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like…

— Chika Anadu

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt…

— Lynda Barry

I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her.…

— Karen Russell

This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him,"…

— Libba Bray

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same…

— John Slattery

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing…

— Chinua Achebe

'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my…

— Alaina Huffman

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like…

— Kiefer Sutherland

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

— Oscar Wilde

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole…

— Erik Wemple

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.…

— Paul Gallico

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real…

— Beau Willimon

My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and…

— Alexander Payne

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting…

— Will Durant

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

— Regina Spektor

“But bad luck makes good stories.”

— Bernard Evslin

I always write a story in one sitting.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

— Mary Pilon

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

— Martine Leavitt

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

— Heinrich Heine

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

— Bruce Coville