Quotes About Stories

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

You ever worked with Wookiees?" The commandos shook their heads, wide-eyed. "Well, everything you've heard is true.

Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.

Books are dead men talking.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.