Stories Quotes (1032 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Aleksandar Hemon
„I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.“
Picture of quotation author Claire Danes
„It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.“
― Claire Danes ―
Picture of quotation author Christiane Amanpour
„I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.“
Picture of quotation author Jim Lee
„The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.“
― Jim Lee ―
Picture of quotation author Trey Parker
„Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.“
― Trey Parker ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Radcliffe
„I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.“
Picture of quotation author Jim McKay
„But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.“
― Jim McKay ―
Picture of quotation author Sophie Marceau
„When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.“
― Sophie Marceau ―
Picture of quotation author Katori Hall
„I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.“
― Katori Hall ―
Picture of quotation author Cecelia Ahern
„Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.“
― Cecelia Ahern ―
Picture of quotation author Art Donovan
„I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.“
― Art Donovan ―
Picture of quotation author Ajay Naidu
„I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.“
― Ajay Naidu ―
Picture of quotation author Alfred Marshall
„In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.“
― Alfred Marshall ―
Picture of quotation author Alice Hoffman
„They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.“
― Alice Hoffman ―
Picture of quotation author Tess Gerritsen
„Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.“
― Tess Gerritsen ―
Picture of quotation author Mario Batali
„When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.“
― Mario Batali ―
Picture of quotation author Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
„I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.“
Picture of quotation author Tatyana Tolstaya
„I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.“
Picture of quotation author Seth Shostak
„Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.“
― Seth Shostak ―
Picture of quotation author Jenny McCarthy
„Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.“
― Jenny McCarthy ―

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