Stories Quotes - Page 125

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

History depends on who is telling the story.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from the moment I met her. Kelly Meding has written a phenomenal story, one that's fast-paced, gritty, and utterly addictive. Brava! More! More! More!

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.