Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Moore

They don't know how interesting their stories are to us.

Gerard Way

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Hayao Miyazaki

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Henry David Thoreau

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Jean Paul Gaultier

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Jessica Lynch

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Iyanla Vanzant

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

Iyanla Vanzant

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Elton John

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

Ian MacKaye

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

Ian Mcewan

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

Eugene H. Peterson

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Eyvind Johnson

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Eudora Welty

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Eudora Welty

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

Erwin McManus

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Erle Stanley Gardner

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

Flannery O'Connor

The meaning of the story is the story.

Flannery O'Connor

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

Flannery O'Connor

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

Jeff Daniels

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

James Buchan

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

James Cameron

All my films are love stories,

Jack Valenti

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Jack Vance

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.