Top 37 Stories Have Power Quotes
#1. Instinctively and empirically we know that stories have the power and the potential to capture hearts and imaginations - we're just not sure how or why this is so.
Sarah Arthur
#2. I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.
Michael Nyqvist
#4. There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#5. I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
Stephen Greenblatt
#6. Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.
Midori Goto
#7. Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine power exists, have now come to be so ashamed of their own belief, hiding their ignorance, they are now struggling hard to prove those stories as scientifically true.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#8. Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.
Sarah Kay
#9. Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
Joyce Maynard
#10. Untold stories have the power to shatter worlds made of glass.
Vanshika Prusty
#11. Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
Ben Okri
#12. The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.
Anita Sarkeesian
#13. All the stories we've been telling about the presence of an evil power in the world, all the dark characters that have sent chills down our spines and given us restless nights - they are spoken to us as warnings.
There is evil cast around us ... there is an evil force in this world.
John Eldredge
#14. But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [ ... ]
Wes Moore
#15. Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move people to action. Simply put, if you can't tell it, you can't sell it.
Peter Guber
#16. Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.
Chris D'Lacey
#17. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.
Lorin Stein
#19. I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
Sandra Cisneros
#20. I think only bookworms understand the kind of power stories can have on a person
Cassie Mae
#21. So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.
Brit Marling
#22. If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#23. I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
Hayao Miyazaki
#24. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary
#25. I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.
Ann Curry
#26. Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
Ellery Adams
#27. I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
Anthony Horowitz
#28. Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#29. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#30. Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.
Zephyr Teachout
#31. One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite.
Brownell Landrum
#32. What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.
Ina May Gaskin
#33. Stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.
Angelica Banks
#34. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo
#35. identity stories have tremendous power over us and over the quality of our lives. We
Aziz Gazipura
#36. Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.
Chuck Wendig
#37. God, I hate Sleeping Beauties." Why that story, out of all the possible stories, should have the sort of staying power it does is beyond me. Centuries of helpless girls, half of them rotting away years before their Prince could come. It makes me sick.
Seanan McGuire
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