Stories Quotes
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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.
Etgar Keret
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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.
Rajkummar Rao
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Hilary Mantel
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
Sarah Pinborough
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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.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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.
Mira Nair
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
Sherman Alexie
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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
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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.
Etgar Keret
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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.
Alice Mattison
