Stories Quotes - Page 8

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.