People Stories Quotes

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I think that's something that Oprah [Winfrey] and Ava [ DuVernay] do seamlessly. They know how to connect to people and they know how to share our stories. To be a part of that is a blessing.

When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

With each movie I get better and I'm able to tell incredible stories that move people into motion.

No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.

The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it’s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.