Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jehane Noujaim

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

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.

Elsa Lanchester

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

Jay Asher

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Jason Mewes

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Jason Momoa

For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet, but I would with the show. It's become an integral enough part of me now, that I could definitely tell a story in this.

Jason Mraz

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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.

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 ...