Quotes of: Stories Keyword

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Chinua Achebe

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. A...

The Night is For Hunting

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

The Story Sisters

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Beau Bridges

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

Michael Sheen

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

G.K. Chesterton

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Casey Kasem

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

Faith must withstand time. It can’t be a here today and gone tomorrow kind of trust.

21 Stories of Faith: Real People, Real Stories, Real Faith

Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there’s story in its pages. But then there’s the story of its writing. And there’s also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers.

The Summer Isles

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.

Paper Towns

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The ...

Adam Hamilton

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on i...

Skippy Dies

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s ...

The Tiger's Wife

Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm. Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, co...

The Man on the Ceiling

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Joel Coen

'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

Ben Browder

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Donald Miller

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Greg Kinnear