Quotes About Stories

We got some beer and some cheap wine and rented a room at a rundown motel and stayed up most of the night telling lies and a few sad truths that we hoped the other would think were lies.

Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Of course, the annals of MIT are full of Wiener stories, some of which are probably true. But nobody knows which ones, I think. My favorite one was where he met the graduate student on the stairs there in Building 2, on the flight of stairs, and he stopped midway to talk to the graduate student for a minute. When he got through, he said to the kid, "Which way was I going when you met me?" "You were going up." "Oh, good. Then I've had lunch.

Every rock-face tells a story, every valley hides a secret. You can see time itself shaped in these rocks, if you look.

You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.

I want people to tell their children terrifying stories about the things we did for love.

You and me will die the way we lived; telling each other stories to make it mean something.

He had been told, he said, of "colored students at the University of Minn[esota] partying with female students (white) and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Stories are a different kind of true.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.