Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khaled Hosseini

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Northrop Frye

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Norman Mailer

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Mason Cooley

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Michael Connelly

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Chabon

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Michael Arndt

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Michel Hazanavicius

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

Henry Ford

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Harvey Mackay

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

Louise Erdrich

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan Didion

We are the stories we tell ourselves

Eric Stoltz

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Sean Bean

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Michael Welch

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Michael Pollan

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sherilyn Fenn

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Sherilyn Fenn

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

Neil Jordan

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Neil Gaiman

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Neil Gaiman

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.