Stories Quotes - Page 51

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

People are the story they tell themselves.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.