Stories Quotes

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.

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

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

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

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

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

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.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.