Stories Quotes - Page 15

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.