Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Gerald Vizenor

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Harriet Lerner

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Homaro Cantu

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

Ian Mckellen

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

Ian Somerhalder

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

Howie Mandel

Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.

Hannah Arendt

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Guy deBord

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Guy deBord

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Gillian Flynn

There are no really new stories anymore.

Gillian Jacobs

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Harvey Weinstein

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Elton John

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

J. Michael Straczynski

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

J. K. Rowling

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Guillermo del Toro

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Guillermo del Toro

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

Anthony Shadid

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Rohinton Mistry

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

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

William Joyce

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Walter Dean Myers

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft