Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Hilarie Burton

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Henry James

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan Didion

We are the stories we tell ourselves

Eric Stoltz

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Ayn Rand

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Takafumi Horie

As for the stories in the press, I have no idea who researched them, or how.

Tess Gerritsen

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Andy Weir

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

David Moore

They don't know how interesting their stories are to us.

There will be a lot of stories about this thing for a lot of years,

There were some real high-profile stories of corruption. That really got people's attention.

Gerard Way

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Hayao Miyazaki

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Henry David Thoreau

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Jean Paul Gaultier

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Jessica Lynch

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Jeremy Brett

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

Eugene H. Peterson

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Eyvind Johnson

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Eudora Welty

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Eudora Welty

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

Erwin McManus

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.