Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scott

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

Michael Scott

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

John P. Kotter

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Neil Jordan

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Neil Gaiman

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Neil Gaiman

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Neil Gaiman

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

Mavis Gallant

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Max Irons

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Maurice Blanchot

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Maya Angelou

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Maurice Sendak

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Matt Walsh

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

Matt Smith

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Paula Fox

To be human is to be in a story.

Ledisi

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Lee Child

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Lance Armstrong

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

John Updike

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

John Shelby Spong

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

John Rhys-Davies

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.