Stories Quotes
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
Ben Lerner -
A lot of times, films tell stories about the time we live in. So when making history, it´s just as important to give the female perspective as well as the male. We need female voices. Take a risk. Be personal.
Anne Sewitsky
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
Anthony Robbins -
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
Brandon Mull -
I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
Simon Sinek -
I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
Dolly Parton -
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury -
Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.
Bret Hart
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We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
Mona Simpson -
If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
Sherman Alexie -
Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?
Scott Turow -
I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
Tommy Hilfiger -
What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
Steven Soderbergh -
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Etgar Keret
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
Carter G. Woodson -
One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
Spalding Gray -
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
Etgar Keret -
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
Shonda Rhimes -
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
Ray Bradbury -
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
Ray Bradbury
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I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
Rebecca Hall -
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
Haris Pasovic -
When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Eve Ensler