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Quotes About Stories

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
~ Sharon Creech
Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.
~ Shawn Amos
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."
~ Steve Erickson
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
~ Terry Pratchett
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
~ Wally Lamb
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
~ Haruki Murakami
I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.
~ Helen Hunt
My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.
~ Henry Blodget
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.
~ Hugh Bonneville
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
~ Ice T
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
~ Jesmyn Ward
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
~ Joss Whedon
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.
~ Laura Mullen
I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
~ Lionel Richie
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
~ Mason Cooley
Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.
~ Meera Lester
I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
~ Moran Atias
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
~ Nicole Holofcener
I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.
~ Rachel Maddow
As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."
~ Richard Conniff
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.
~ Adolf Hitler