Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

There is no story that is not true.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Edith Wharton

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Beatrix Potter

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Barry Bonds

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Audre Lorde

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

Mark Cuban

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Catherynne M. Valente

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.

Catherynne M. Valente

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Casey Stoner

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Bill Nighy

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Carolyn Porco

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Beth Orton

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Bob Kane

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Charlie Rowe

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Bob Woodward

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Billy Joel

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

Jane Austen

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.