Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

I just want to get it straight, ... There are so many stories out there.

Nancy Werlin

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

Jose Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kevin Spacey

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Kurt Busiek

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Khaled Hosseini

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Harvey Mackay

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

Louise Erdrich

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Hedi Slimane

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Henry Ford

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Libba Bray

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

Leslie Marmon Silko

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

Jon Ronson

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

Jon Heder

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Lynn Shelton

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Louis Malle

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Jack Lynch

These are important stories to tell and should be told elsewhere, but not at America's memorial.

Eric Kripke

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Eric Kripke

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

James Franco

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

James Clavell

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Northrop Frye

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Norman Mailer

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Jen Lancaster

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Everyone is talking about USC making history. But we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.