Stories Quotes
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
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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.
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
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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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I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
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Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
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My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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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.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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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.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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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.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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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.
