Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Adriana Trigiani

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Adam Johnson

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Adam Ant

I always like to tell a story.

Abe Fortas

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Heather Graham

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

I am interested in stories that concern women.

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.

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Alice McDermott

We are surrounded by story.

Alice Munro

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Alice Hoffman

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Anne McCaffrey

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

Alber Elbaz

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Albert Camus

Don't let them tell us stories

Claire Danes

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Daniel Kahneman

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Conor McPherson

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

E. L. James

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

E. M. Forster

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

Douglas Rushkoff

New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

Donald Davis

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Donald E. Westlake

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Don DeLillo

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Donatella Versace

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Douglas Wilson

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Donald Miller

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.