Stories Quotes
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
Paul Auster
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne Williamson
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I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.
Michael Koryta
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Vladimir Nabokov
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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
Helen Suzman
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Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
Elizabeth Fishel
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
Eva Green
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
Sergio Leone
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There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
Andreas Deja
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
T.A. Barron
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
Eddie McGuire
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I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.
Ethan Canin
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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.
Betty Smith
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
George Gerbner
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Patrick Ness
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan Rickman
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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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We all have our own stories to tell and you can draw inspiration from anywhere. Sometimes the best things happen when you just sit in a room together and let whatever happens happen.
Sydney Sierota
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There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
Saoirse Ronan
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
William Butler Yeats
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The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.
Zazie Beetz
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Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.
Judy Collins
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
Michiel Huisman