Stories Quotes - Page 130

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Every love story is a ghost story.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

As time passes, my story fades away.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

We live in stories the way fish live in water.

[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

I know that this story is true.

Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?