Stories Quotes - Page 5

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

You must give your own story to the world.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories