Stories Quotes

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

I chase after inspiring stories.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I like telling stories.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I'm not really an impersonator.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I like small stories.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

I always liked spy stories.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

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

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.