Stories Quotes

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it’s not than it’s a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.