Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erle Stanley Gardner

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

Flannery O'Connor

The meaning of the story is the story.

Flannery O'Connor

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

Flannery O'Connor

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

Helen Keller

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Cassandra Clare

All the stories are true

Cassandra Clare

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

Cassandra Clare

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Cassandra Clare

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

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 . . .

Iyanla Vanzant

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

Iyanla Vanzant

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Elton John

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

Jennifer Haigh

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Jeff Bridges

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

George Sanders

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."

George Sand

almost all novels are love stories.

George Saunders

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jeffery Deaver

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Jeffery Deaver

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Jeff Probst

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

Jim Harrison

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Death steals everything except our stories.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.