Stories Quotes

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I want to know my whole story works before I start working.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.