Stories Quotes · Page 63

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

— V. S. Pritchett

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

— Howard Gardner

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Our children's children will hear a good story.

— Richard Adams

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

— Piers Anthony

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.”

— Salley Vickers

I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can.

— George C. Wolfe

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

— Dane Cook

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

— Peter Hedges

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

— Brad Meltzer

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

— Julianna Margulies

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

— Volker Bertelmann

“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but…

— Amit Kalantri

The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I…

— John Legend

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's…

— Robert McKee

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through…

— Graeme Base

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about…

— Joel Stein

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the…

— Thomas Paine

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain…

— Michael Chabon

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed…

— Ian Rankin

[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and…

— George Bancroft

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down…

— Joseph Furphy

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our…

— William Kittredge

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and…

— Theodora Goss

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't…

— Geraldine Brooks

I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good…

— David Sedaris

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their…

— Adele Logan Alexander

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

— Gloria Steinem

“There can be funny moments during sad stories”

— Ammon Shea

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.

— Charlie Murphy

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

— Claire Danes

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

— Ralph Steadman