Stories Quotes - Page 44

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Everybody has their story to tell.