Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Miller

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Colleen Atwood

Every project starts with a story.

Deepak Chopra

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Deepak Chopra

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

Anthony Minghella

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

Christopher Meloni

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

Angelina Jolie

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

Andrew Clements

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

Amy Bloom

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Annette Bening

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

Annette Funicello

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Anne Rice

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

Andrew Stanton

The best stories infuse wonder,

Andrew Stanton

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

Andrew Stanton

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Andrew Stanton

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Claire Danes

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Daniel Kahneman

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Conor McPherson

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Dan Chaon

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

Dan Chaon

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Brown

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

David Mamet

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

Darren Criss

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

Davy Rothbart

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.