Stories Quotes
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Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.
Bret Hart -
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.
Errol Morris -
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 -
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
Nicholas Delbanco -
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling -
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
Etgar Keret -
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
Harvey Pekar
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
Bart Ehrman -
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
Etgar Keret -
I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
Michael Morpurgo -
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Steve Earle -
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
Studs Terkel -
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
Bret Anthony Johnston
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
Errol Morris -
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
Etgar Keret -
The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
Michael Connelly -
I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
George Eliot -
Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
Carmen Naranjo -
Our children's children will hear a good story.
Richard Adams
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
Blake Mycoskie -
I love story songs because I've always loved books.
Dolly Parton -
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
Sarah Pinborough -
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
Mireille Enos