Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.
If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.
I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.
[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.