Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Berger

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

John Baird

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

Joey Skaggs

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joe Lando

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Joe Jonas

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

Jincy Willett

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Frank Darabont

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Hilarie Burton

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Henry James

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story.

Steven Shainberg

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

Steven Spielberg

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Robert Bringhurst

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Josh Hutcherson

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Katherine Dunn

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Marilyn Monroe

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Nikki Giovanni

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Henri Matisse

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Henri Nouwen

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

Libba Bray

There is no greater power on this earth than story.