Story Urge Quotes

#1. When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Paul Russell

#2. The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

Abby Wambach

#3. Welcome to the darker side of love.

Michael Cunningham

#4. 'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.

Ruth Glick

#5. An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.

Siobhan Davis

#6. The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

Fred Bear

#7. The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I

Gail Collins

#8. As a moviemaker, I'm able to have a little impact on the socio-political landscape and to reach a large audience around the world. That inspires me. That is something I'm inspired by and it's what I inspire to.

Larry Charles

#9. There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. I don't believe that anything's totally invented ... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner

#11. I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.

Sevyn Streeter

#12. Wherever I am, I think it's my show.

CM Punk

#13. The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Adam Johnson

#14. The nation that draws the most materials and provisions from the earth, fabricates the most, and sells the most of productions and fabrics to foreign nations, must be, and will be, the great power of the earth.

James MacDonald

#15. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever I sit down to write a story.

Amos Oz

#17. Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Charles R. Swindoll

#18. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

Eric Bana

#19. No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

Annie Besant

#20. I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.

Nick Carter

#21. My threshold for human contact had worn painfully thin. I felt like a car that had been running its lights too long on battery alone. I felt fresh out of charge, and as though I needed to plug in for days before I could have one more conversation with one more human being.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#22. The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Plato