Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

James Patterson

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James Patterson

What are we but our stories?

James O'Shaughnessy

History depends on who is telling the story.

Taylor Swift

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

Spalding Gray

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

Thomas Hardy

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Thomas King

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Thomas King

There are no truths. Only stories.

Thomas King

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

Thomas King

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

Raymond Queneau

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

Raymond Queneau

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

Russell Brand

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Rex Stout

Everything in a story should be credible.

Rebecca Solnit

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

Rick Warren

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Tori Spelling

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Maggie Shayne

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Hans Zimmer

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Harlan Howard

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Junior Seau

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Willem Dafoe

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Warren Spector

Good stories are constructed, not found,