Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sayles

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

Nancy Farmer

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Marlon Brando

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

Mariska Hargitay

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Nicholson Baker

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

Nigel Evans

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Morris Chestnut

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Monica Lewinsky

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Miranda July

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

Michael Hastings

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

Michael Hastings

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Mason Cooley

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Michael Connelly

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Chabon

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Michael Arndt

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Michel Hazanavicius

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

Patricia MacLachlan

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Lorrie Moore

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Liya Kebede

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Margaret Mahy

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Michael Cunningham

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Crichton

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Markus Zusak

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

But we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.