Quotes of: Good-story Keyword

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Ira Glass

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Jami Attenberg

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Jason Alexander

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Bruce Feiler

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

George R. R. Martin

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

Julianne Moore

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

John D. Voelker

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

Dale Archer

I would love to play Janis Gaye in the Marvin Gaye story. If they ever do the Marvin Gaye story, I would love to play Janis - just throwing that out there.

Lauren London

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

Al Michaels

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

Woody: Oh no. Hamm the Piggy Bank: Oh yes! Return of the Astro-Nut!

Toy Story 3

Buzz Lightyear: That Barbie has nice handwriting! Jessie: Uhh, Buzz? Barbie didn't write this.

Toy Story 3

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

Ray McKinnon

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

Ted Demme

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Tobias Wolff

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Winona Ryder

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.

Roma Downey

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Stan Sakai

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Tim Vine

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Tobias Wolff