Stories Quotes
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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.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part of good stories. The only thing that has changed is now I have options of good stories to choose from.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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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.
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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
