Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rob Lowe

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

Jim Harrison

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Death steals everything except our stories.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

Jennifer McMahon

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Jennifer Nettles

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

Jennifer Lynch

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

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.