Stories Quotes - Page 230

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

I like telling stories.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.