Top 1200 Reading Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

I do a better job of standing in front of the guards than I used to. I can take it to a higher level as far as reading the offenses, reading where all of our guys are, so I can get into the right position.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

When I heard the stories of both my movies, I liked them. These are the kind of stories that I enjoy.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

We've all heard stories about poker players grinding it out for two days straight. Believe me; I've got stories like that of my own. But the bottom line is that these stories usually don't have great endings. That's because the mind starts playing tricks after a marathon poker session, especially after a losing session.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're still open to reading, but there are other things that are starting to interest them that can pull them out of their reading habits. It's a critical time to make the reading habits stick, but at the same time it's not pulling teeth to try to get them to read in the first place.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

I cannot lie: as good as it feels to get my deserved props, the best part of reading social media after I meet folks is reading, 'Mike was a nice guy.'

There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.