Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Keanu Reeves

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Oprah Winfrey

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Oliver North

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Margaret Atwood

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

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

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Margaret Cho

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s 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.

Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Howard Dean

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

Ice T

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Jay Pharoah

Im known for impressions and family stories.

Jay McInerney

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Jay Leno

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

Jay Leno

This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.

Buzz Aldrin

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

James Herbert

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

James Hetfield

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Jared Leto

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

Etgar Keret

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

Etgar Keret

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

Ethan Hawke

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for.

Peter Farrelly

These stories are usually tearjerkers and there's no need for it.

There will be a lot of stories about this thing for a lot of years,

There were some real high-profile stories of corruption. That really got people's attention.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Takafumi Horie

As for the stories in the press, I have no idea who researched them, or how.