Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

John Green

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

John Green

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

John Green

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

P. T. Barnum

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

David Eddings

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Benioff

I like having my own story remain my story.

Dario Argento

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Dani Shapiro

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

I'm the first to acknowledge those stories turned out to be wrong. But journalists get things wrong every day.

Investigators wanted to make sure that their stories matched.

Isabel Allende

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Isabel Allende

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Isabel Allende

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Isabel Allende

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

Frederik Pohl

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Fred Barnes

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Erich Auerbach

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Pedro Almodovar

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

J. J. Abrams

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

J. J. Abrams

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Irwin Shaw

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Ira Glass

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Ira Glass

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Ford

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

Guy Pearce

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Greg Giraldo

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story