Quotes About Stories

To put significance in our stories, we must also take action. Being passive may feel safe. If you do nothing, nothing can go wrong. But while inaction cannot fail, it cannot succeed either. We can wait, and hope, and wish, but if we do, we miss the stories our lives could be.

Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.

Your lies? You told that. Your bullsh..? Won't take that. Your stories? I've heard that. Your excuses? Save that. You're my ex, just face that.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

A good friend knows all your stories, a bestfriend has lived them with you.

A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has lived them with you. See the difference?

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

I write about everyday people, everyday lives.

I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

I just hope to tell stories that help change people's minds about loving and accepting others. And one of the best ways we can do that is through laughter.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.