Stories Quotes - Page 110

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.