Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Maynard

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Joyce Maynard

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Karl Urban

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

Philip Pullman

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

Philip Pullman

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he's made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it's very hard to ignore what he's done to them.I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

Q-Tip

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Hans Zimmer

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Harlan Howard

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Gustave Flaubert

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Grantland Rice

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

John Lithgow

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

John Landgraf

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

John Lee Hooker

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

John Barth

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Jodie Foster

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Josh Holloway

I like surprises. I like mystery. I'm not the kind of person who goes to the writer's room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don't tell me anything!

Josh Hutcherson

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Katherine Dunn

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Karen Kingsbury

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Russell

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.