Stories Quotes - Page 118

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain.

It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to do that story. I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk. I really wanted to do it in the movie.

People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

A good story never dies.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.