Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Russell

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Julio Cortazar

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Julio Cortazar

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Joy Williams

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Junior Seau

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Judy Greer

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Paul Krugman

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

John Sayles

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

Nancy Farmer

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Paul Auster

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Lisi Harrison

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Nic Pizzolatto

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell

Jodi Picoult

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

John Green

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

John Green

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

John Green

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

P. T. Barnum

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Marilyn Monroe

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.