Story Love Quotes

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

I really love the story in 'Twilight.'

I actually love 'West Side Story.' I think it's an amazing film to watch.

I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I was being a sort of rebellious teenager, really. But there was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after. As long as they kept asking me to come back, I was gonna keep doing it. 'Cause I loved the story! There's no way I would have left.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?