Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

Julian Barnes

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

Keith Richards

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Marilyn Monroe

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Nikki Giovanni

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Matt Drudge

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Margot Asquith

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Marguerite Moreau

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Mark Wahlberg

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

R. Kelly

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Lisi Harrison

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Paul Michael Glaser

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Paul Merton

I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Keanu Reeves

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.