As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country. Her story is America’s story. – Joe Biden On Kamala Harris.
That this guy has his finger on the nuclear trigger is worse than any horror story I ever wrote. – Stephen King On Donald Trump.
George Floyd’s story has been the story of Black folks. We could never be who we wanted and dreamed to be is you kept your knee on our neck. It’s time for us to stand up in George’s name and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks!’ – Al Sharpton
I simply don’t understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it’s lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else. – Geraldine McCaughrean
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do – fight while they can. – George Crook
My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here’s an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences. – Graydon Carter
What I’m interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it. – Grace Paley
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others. – Gardner Dozois
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. – Guillermo del Toro
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in ‘Marble Season’, although that wasn’t my intention. It’s also a world without adults. – Gilbert Hernandez
Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is. – Haskell Wexler
I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get far enough in that the story has really touched you to the core and deeply troubled you and made you unhappy and fearful, and then how do you get out of that? I’m a writer, so my way of getting out of that is to write. – Helen Garner
I always do make a back story for myself, but I’m not sure how necessary it is. I just like to. – Gena Rowlands
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. – George Saintsbury
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland. – Hannah Kent
To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do. – Greg McHugh
‘The Night Watch’ is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are. – Harry Treadaway
In documentary films, you’re a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller. – Garth Stein
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. – Helen Dunmore
Parents don’t take a baby’s temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary. – George Akerlof
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can’t figure out. – Harold Ramis
That’s the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics. – Glen Mazzara