Stories Quotes
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
Peter O'Toole
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We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.
Stephen Henderson
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Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
N. T. Wright
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At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
Michael Morpurgo
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
Delia Sherman
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
William Sleator
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla
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Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they become. I find out that the difference between knowing something and being able to talk about it is that there we many hands now, and we all share the burden...
Brigid Pasulka
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I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.
Wes Anderson
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Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
Mort Kondracke
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But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.
Steven Levitan
