Quotes About Stories

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

So even though 'Sanditon' was filmed in Gloucestershire on the coast, which was gorgeous, it meant I could finish work, get home, and do a few bedtime stories.

All literature is gossip.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

In my free time, I read a lot, watch shows, listen to music, cook, write short stories and spend time with my grandchildren.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.

I've always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

I always liked 'Green Lantern,' but I wasn't necessarily a diehard fan. I read stories here and there when I came across them.

'Masaan' was a small role, but people connected with it. I loved playing a man who does not have many complexities in life. I was inspired by my father for this role. You find such characters in novel or in stories. You don't find such parts in movies where characters are either good, bad, or grey.