Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine L'Engle

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Madeleine L'Engle

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

John Garfield

Must I tell the story of my life again?

John Flanagan

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

Jonathan Franzen

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'.

Jonathan Carroll

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Joyce Carol Oates

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

Joyce Carol Oates

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Joyce Carol Oates

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Kate Adie

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

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.

Patton Oswalt

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Mary Oliver

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story...

Pope Francis

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Pete Townshend

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Paulo Coelho

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

Paulo Coelho

All love stories are the same.

Primo Levi

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Jim Lehrer

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

George Lucas

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

Jimmy Fallon

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

Linda Ronstadt

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Lawrence Kasdan

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Lauren Graham

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Larry King

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

Larry Niven

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Lewis Black

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.