Stories Quotes
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.
Alex Lemon
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
Michael Shannon -
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
Amitava Kumar -
My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.
Wolf Blitzer -
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
Arthur Kleinman -
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
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
Arthur Kleinman -
(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
Chris Gardner -
Technique is of less interest than character and story.
William Friedkin -
Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.
Sara Shepard -
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
Sara Shepard -
I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.
Ben Jaffe
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I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.
Wright Thompson -
If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
Erle Stanley Gardner -
I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I'm proud of. I know that probably won't happen all the time. But I'd prefer to be telling stories I can be proud of and understand why they're being told. I do watch a lot of films and TV, but sometimes I think: "Why the hell did you make that then?" I won't say what they are though.
Aisling Loftus -
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
Harry Lloyd -
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
Stanley Hauerwas
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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
Conn Iggulden -
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Northrop Frye -
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William Shatner -
At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon