Top 100 The Best Stories Quotes
#1. I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Tobias Wolff
#2. [The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented ...
Faulkner in the University, 117
William Faulkner
#3. The story, like all the best stories, split like an amoeba, forming an endless series of new stories and opinion pieces and speculative articles, each spawning its own counter chorus.
Robert Galbraith
#4. There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.
Robert Kurson
#5. The best stories are the open ones, those you don't quite understand.
Hanif Kureishi
#6. When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.
Roy Conli
#7. Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
Seth Godin
#8. Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.
Jim Carrey
#9. You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."
"Beautiful and full of monsters?"
"All the best stories are.
Laini Taylor
#10. That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
#11. The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the best stories are usually about a battle of good over evil - that has never changed.
Cat Stevens
#12. In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
Russell Smith
#14. Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#16. On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.
Lurlene McDaniel
#17. The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE
Timothy J. Keller
#18. Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.
Jonathan Franzen
#19. Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure.
Josh Rose
#20. Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. The best stories, I feel, are those that are self-deprecating and involve some thread of irony.
Penny Reid
#22. More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#23. Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.
Michael Isikoff
#24. The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims.
Deyth Banger
#26. We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.
Todd Lieberman
#27. why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.
Lori Kay
#28. The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.
James Frey
#29. The best stories ever written are the these were inspired by it endings.
Sameh Elsayed
#30. The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.
A.D. Posey
#31. The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made-up.
Fredrik Backman
#32. The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
Dennis Quaid
#36. I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.
Peter Turnley
#37. All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Arthur Christopher Benson
#38. I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
Tony Kushner
#39. Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Alice Hoffman
#40. The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.
Arthur Bradford
#42. Where you are, right here and now, this is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories, begin.
Pleasefindthis
#43. I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
Noah Hawley
#44. But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face, how she was a ferryboat captain's daughter who believed that people could fly.
Alice Hoffman
#45. I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
Stephen King
#46. You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. The best stories are those dreams yet to be written.
~ Taken from King Eli, To the Ends of the Earth.
C.M. Padilla
#48. 'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the retelling.
Anne Boyd Rioux
#51. The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#53. The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
Etgar Keret
#54. The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
Lynn Coady
#55. From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.
Andrew Davies
#56. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
#57. The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
Shonda Rhimes
#58. All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
Pete Hamill
#59. We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell
Frank Turner
#60. The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
Matt Groening
#61. Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
Terry Teachout
#62. However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry - because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we've decided to leave the book after Issue 26.
J. H. Williams III
#63. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern
#64. Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
Anne Fine
#65. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#66. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#67. 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
#68. Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
Emily Giffin
#69. The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home.
Richard Roberts
#71. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#72. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#73. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins
#74. The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Barbara Myerhoff
#75. Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.
Nicholas Sparks
#76. Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really, I feel like is part of the theme and part of the best way to end the story that I'm telling with the special.
Jen Kirkman
#77. With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.
Melissa Hill
#78. Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.
Andrew Barger
#79. These, and many of the other best-known legends of the Rosebud, are false ... the ghost stories of people who have seen too many horror movies and who think they know exactly how a ghost story should be.
Joe Hill
#80. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'Amour
#81. Adam searched out old friends from the neighborhood. They drank beer together in the garden of the Stag & Hounds, trading stories and trying their best to ignore the inescapable truth - that the ties that once bound them were loosening by the year and might soon be gone altogether.
Mark Mills
#82. Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
Mark Twain
#83. Complicated love stories are the best kind.
Amelia LeFay
#84. In my experience, love is a destructive force, tearing hearts to shreds and forcing people to pick up the pieces. Even the best love stories are violent tales.
Karina Halle
#85. Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain
Avi Salmon
#86. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Christina Aguilera
#87. But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back - all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?
Stephen King
#88. If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#89. We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
Neil Gaiman
#90. We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming
#91. This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather
#92. It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.
Rick Reilly
#93. A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it'll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.
Dennis Lehane
#94. I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.
Norman Jewison
#96. F(r)iction is the best of everything we've ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly - stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect.
Tethered By Letters
#97. That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Roger McGuinn
#98. There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.
Nicky Gumbel
#99. You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'
Mark Billingham
#100. You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.
Morgan Neville
