Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Blanchot

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Madeleine L'Engle

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Madeleine L'Engle

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

John Garfield

Must I tell the story of my life again?

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

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

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!

Pete Townshend

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Paulo Coelho

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

Paulo Coelho

All love stories are the same.

Primo Levi

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Judy Greer

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Paul Krugman

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Paolo Bacigalupi

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

Patton Oswalt

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Mary Oliver

We do not love anything more deeply than we love 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.

Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Lawrence Kasdan

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Lauren Graham

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Larry King

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories