Top 100 Quotes About Stories
#1. I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters and movies that are just funny and work because they're good and not because they're a slight variation that were hot a few months ago.
Scot Armstrong
#2. I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#3. Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
Earl Monroe
#4. Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there's story in its pages. But then there's the story of its writing. And there's also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers.
Ian R. MacLeod
#5. One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.
Donald Trump
#6. The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.
Chelsea Martin
#7. There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.
Charles Soule
#8. I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.
Nick Antosca
#10. How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#11. Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
Sade Adu
#12. I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
Charles Baxter
#13. Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
Jim Bishop
#14. Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.
V.S. Naipaul
#15. I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
Dario Argento
#16. If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena
#17. I do admit there are things in the universe I don't understand. But my response to that is not to make up silly stories ... or to believe intellectually embarrassing myths from the Bronze Age, but you believe whatever you want.
Bill Maher
#18. I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n
' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that ... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.
Louis C.K.
#19. Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.
Dennis R. Miller
#20. Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.
Mark Beauregard
#21. It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence beyond the page. Deep down, despite the evidence of our lives, we can't really believe that anything is ever made up.
Joel Lane
#22. I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.
Andrew Breitbart
#23. My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla
#27. Stay with & live your dreams, for these trail blazers did and history is telling their stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils
Ikechukwu Joseph
#28. We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.
Chinua Achebe
#29. Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others.
Neil Gaiman
#30. What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.
Frank Miller
#31. I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.
Kevin Spacey
#32. If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
Susanne Bier
#33. There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz
#34. NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.
Ann Coulter
#35. If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
Sherwood Anderson
#36. She wanted a life not full of things, but stories, so many stories that, if they'd had weight and heft, they wouldn't have fit into a thousand suitcases.
Sarah Addison Allen
#37. True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.
Steven Knight
#38. We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#39. Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.
Morgan Wootten
#40. Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
James Patterson
#41. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.
Bree Verity
#42. All of a sudden the world opened up
and it's doing it again now.
In this garden there are so many stories,
so many other problems besides mine.
Samantha Schutz
#43. We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.
Suzanne Rindell
#44. Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
Natalie Goldberg
#45. No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.
Judith James
#46. Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.
Ann Aguirre
#47. I've heard people speak of themselves as addicted to reading, but I think those people never stole from their family so they could afford this month's serial, or sucked off a sailor for a new book of short stories.
Daniel Polansky
#48. Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.
John Corey Whaley
#49. the south where these stories take place - is lower Alabama, lush and green and full of death, the wooded counties between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers.
Tom Franklin
#50. Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#51. Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
Harry Styles
#52. I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.
Lisa Loeb
#53. Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
J.M. Barrie
#54. I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.
Jennifer McMahon
#55. I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.
Valerie Parv
#56. The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
George Lucas
#57. Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.
Brian D. McLaren
#58. I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
Henry Petroski
#59. I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Eve Bunting
#60. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#61. Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Cecelia Ahern
#62. It's okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn't always deliver the one you would expect.
Adam Silvera
#63. Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
Seth Godin
#64. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
Brenda Perlin
#65. I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.
Jill Soloway
#67. Wasn't that what all stories said?You felt it, like a pang in your heart, when something was happening to someone you love
Cornelia Funke
#68. Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing ... let the song do the work.
Shelby Lynne
#69. I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.
Joss Whedon
#70. Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.
Errol Morris
#71. In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
David Morse
#72. I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#73. A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.
Peter Orner
#74. Curiously, there are many perfect short stories, but no perfect novels.
J.G. Ballard
#76. Although I've played a wide variety of roles, I've never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It's a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.
Grace Kelly
#77. Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#78. Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them.
Wally Lamb
#79. From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Nadine Gordimer
#80. I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
Joseph Bruchac
#81. Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
Jason Aaron
#82. Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Neil Gaiman
#83. When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or told from my perspective.
Nas
#84. I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
Faith Ringgold
#85. I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
Fred Saberhagen
#86. The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.
Tony Kushner
#87. Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
Jack Kirby
#88. I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'
Charlyne Yi
#89. A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
Mary Pope Osborne
#91. There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.
Daniel Goncalves
#92. Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Carmen Naranjo
#93. It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren - and my own fantastic stories to share.
Ransom Riggs
#94. I loved him more than I loved pralines and beignets, and that was hardcore, because my love of sugary, sweet things rivaled the most epic love stories known to man.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#95. Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
W. H. Auden
#96. I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
Bruno Mars
#97. All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.
Terry Gross
#98. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
J.K. Rowling
#99. It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
Cory Doctorow
#100. Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel.
Francesca Lia Block
