Stories Quotes

I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! … That’s the story of Jesus.

I travel so much on stories, so I don’t take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

I want people to hear my story, they’re gonna feel my pain.

I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.