Stories Quotes
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In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
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I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.
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I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
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There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
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I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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I like the stories with the historical themes.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
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I think the idea of that is more inspired by the folk music that we’re so into, both playing and listening to. There’s a lot of stories in that, a lot of great rock and roll stuff.
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If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.
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When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
