Quotes About Stories Importance

#1. (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Joseph O'Connor

#2. The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Madame De Stael

#3. You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

John Frankenheimer

#4. I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Elie Wiesel

#5. I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.

Candi Sary

#6. Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.

Debbie Macomber

#7. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

J.K. Rowling

#8. The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Jessica Jackley

#9. We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words.

C. JoyBell C.

#10. I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

David Massengill

#11. The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

John Oates

#12. The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Alice Munro

#13. The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Louise Brown

#14. I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

Luis Fortuno

#15. But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

Morris Gleitzman

#17. For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Will Packer

#18. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Bruno Bettelheim

#19. An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.

Bryant McGill

#20. The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.

Shane Koyczan

#21. The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance .

Mike Madrid

#22. I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Zooey Deschanel

#23. I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

Lorin Stein

#24. Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

Seth Gabel

#25. I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.

Ellen Page

#26. To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

Ben Okri

#27. I am Tessa Gray," she said in a low, clear voice. "And I believe in the importance of stories.

Cassandra Clare

#28. 'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.

Toby Kebbell

#29. You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

Garrison Keillor

#30. The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Mason Cooley