Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabel Allende

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

Jeanette Winterson

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Jena Malone

There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.

Jehane Noujaim

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Jennifer Haigh

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Jeff Bridges

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

George Sanders

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."

George Sand

almost all novels are love stories.

George Saunders

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jeffery Deaver

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Jeffery Deaver

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Jeff Probst

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

Frederik Pohl

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Fred Barnes

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Erich Auerbach

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

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.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Ford

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

Guy Pearce

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Greg Giraldo

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

J. J. Abrams

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

J. J. Abrams

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Irwin Shaw

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Ira Glass

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Ira Glass

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.