Stories Quotes - Page 113

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

My stories are never quite good enough

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

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

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.