Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Neil Gaiman

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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.

Scott Eastwood

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

Seth Godin

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Todd Solondz

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Tobias Lindholm

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

Siri Hustvedt

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Sofia Coppola

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Sofia Coppola

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Michael Scott

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

Michael Scott

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Michael Azerrad

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

James Franco

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

James Clavell

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Hedi Slimane

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Paula Fox

To be human is to be in a story.

Ledisi

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Lee Child

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.