Quotes About Stories

We worked well together because I was quiet, fascinated by her stories of Wisconsin, which, as she told it, was not only the center of the universe but the place where all life began.

books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters are living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love...Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.

Those Amazing Musical Instruments! Your Guide to the Orchestra Through Sounds and Stories.

head, some at least thirty stories and finished in artful peaks and

I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?

We should ensure to teach the next generation something good. We have such rich literature and history. Why can't we make better stories?

I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.

When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really good cinema, driven by good stories. But then, I decided to explore everything possible.