Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Kristin Hannah

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Molly Ivins

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Margaret Atwood

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Sebastiao Salgado

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Si Robertson

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Shelley Hennig

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

Seymour Hersh

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place...

Seth

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Sean Taylor

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Lawrence Block

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

Laura Riding

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Marcia Clark

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

Simon Baker

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Shia LaBeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.