Quotes About Stories

I think people will always be interested in crimes of passion. And I don't think you can do a genre-heavy show and not be influenced by successful, beautiful stories that have gone before.

I was familiar with Lovecraft, I also was familiar with his history as a person. So I had read his stories but I wasn't bananas like I think that a lot of people get bananas. I was like, they're good and I can definitely see the influences - but I can definitely read them and see the parts where you're being racist right there in your own stories.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some characters years later.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.

The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema.

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

I want to tell amazing stories that inspire, that bring you out of your reality, give you dreams to be bigger and better than yourself. Hopefully, I can be that conduit.

What always appeals to us are real stories that are authentic and inspire people.

In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.