Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

Piers Anthony

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Philip Pullman

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

Philip Pullman

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he's made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it's very hard to ignore what he's done to them.I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

Q-Tip

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Kenneth Burke

Stories are equipment for living.

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Julio Cortazar

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

John Flanagan

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

Jonathan Franzen

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'.

Jonathan Carroll

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Joyce Carol Oates

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

Joyce Carol Oates

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Kate Adie

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Josh Holloway

I like surprises. I like mystery. I'm not the kind of person who goes to the writer's room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don't tell me anything!

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.

Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan Didion

We are the stories we tell ourselves

Eric Stoltz

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

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.