Stories Quotes - Page 32

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians