Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Vincent Bugliosi

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

Tyra Banks

Every woman has a story.

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Wally Lamb

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Vita Sackville-West

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Sarah Dessen

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Sandra Bullock

Every movie is a love story.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Rod Stewart

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberta Williams

A good story never dies.

Robert Plant

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

Sarah Zettel

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Sarah Monette

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Wendell Pierce

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

W. Somerset Maugham

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Yann Martel

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Yann Martel

Most of us get our history through story.

Yann Martel

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Wolf Blitzer

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Robert McKee

Stories are the currency of human relationships.