Quotes with stories

  • My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
  • The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
  • One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
  • I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
  • Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
  • One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
  • My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  • It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
  • You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Betty Wright 'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Anderson Cooper A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Byron Howard A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bob Shacochis A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Peter Carey All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Casey Kasem Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
    Casey Kasem
     
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
    Source: Wilfrid Meynell - Benjamin Disraeli (1903) p. 83
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Dylan Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
    Source: Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Source: Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Al Franken But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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