Stories Quotes - Page 42

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a story about a person who broke the rules, or did things differently and succeeded, that's really inspiring to me.