Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Morrissey

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Steven Bochco

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Cojocaru

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

Richard Hell

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Raymond Carver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Kenneth Burke

Stories are equipment for living.

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Scott Pelley

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

Scott Pelley

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

Scarlett Thomas

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

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.

Michelle Paver

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

Mark Sheppard

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Stephen Jay Gould

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Peter Farrelly

These stories are usually tearjerkers and there's no need for it.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

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.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Russell Brand

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Rex Stout

Everything in a story should be credible.

Rebecca Solnit

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

Rick Warren

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Paolo Bacigalupi

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.