Stories Quotes - Page 223

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

It was always about the story rather than the character.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.