Stories Quotes - Page 200

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.

I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.