Quotes of: Story Keyword

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Bob Kane

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

Brian Kilmeade

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Blake Shelton

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

Bernie Worrell

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

Chinua Achebe

The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

Carlton Cuse

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

Gillian Jacobs

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

George Saunders

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Howard Barker

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Helen Dunmore

I'll walk through the fire With my head lifted high And my spirit revived In Your story

Hillsong

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

John Mellencamp

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Jonathan Nolan

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

James Patterson

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Joey Skaggs