Stories Quotes

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I started writing stories as a child.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.