Stories Quotes - Page 57

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.

I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.