Stories Quote by Douglas Kennedy Download Open image “All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?” — Douglas Kennedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories Unique
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions… — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal. — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I insist that through specificity, honesty, and diversity, who gets to hold the storytelling stick, you can have really universal stories that everyone can… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ... ” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“ We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
