Stories Quotes

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.