Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Niven

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Lewis Black

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

Joyce Maynard

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Joyce Maynard

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Joseph Campbell

Everything starts with a story.

Joseph Campbell

Every story you tell is your own story.

Karl Urban

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

Julio Cortazar

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

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.

Joy Williams

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Karen Kingsbury

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Russell

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

Karen Russell

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Linda Ronstadt

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Gustave Flaubert

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Grantland Rice

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

John Lithgow

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

John Landgraf

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

John Lee Hooker

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

John Barth

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Jodie Foster

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Jim Lehrer

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

George Lucas

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

Jimmy Fallon

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.