Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Dan Chaon

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

Dan Chaon

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Brown

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

David Mamet

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Gloria Feldt

The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story.

Francesca Lia Block

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

George Saunders

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Elsa Lanchester

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

Jay Asher

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Jason Mewes

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Jason Momoa

For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet, but I would with the show. It's become an integral enough part of me now, that I could definitely tell a story in this.

Jason Mraz

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Guy deBord

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Guy deBord

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Gillian Flynn

There are no really new stories anymore.

Gillian Jacobs

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Harvey Weinstein

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

Helen Keller

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Cassandra Clare

All the stories are true

Cassandra Clare

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

Cassandra Clare

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Cassandra Clare

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Steven Moffat

We're all stories, in the end.

Steven Moffat

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Steven Morrissey

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Steven Bochco

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Cojocaru

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

Richard Hell

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Raymond Carver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.