Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Marmon Silko

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

Jon Ronson

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

Jon Heder

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Lynn Shelton

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Louis Malle

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Harvey Mackay

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

Louise Erdrich

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Maya Angelou

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Maurice Sendak

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Matt Walsh

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

Matt Smith

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Paula Fox

To be human is to be in a story.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Kurt Busiek

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Khaled Hosseini

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Northrop Frye

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Norman Mailer

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Jack Lynch

These are important stories to tell and should be told elsewhere, but not at America's memorial.

Eric Kripke

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Eric Kripke

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

James Packer

History is His story.

James P. Hoffa

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

Tony Robbins

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

Simon Sinek

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.