Stories Quotes - Page 54

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

You need a story to displace a story.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.