Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Giovanni

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Matt Drudge

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Lorrie Moore

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Liya Kebede

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Margaret Mahy

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Michael Cunningham

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Crichton

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Markus Zusak

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Margot Asquith

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Marguerite Moreau

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Mark Wahlberg

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

R. Kelly

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Oprah Winfrey

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

Oliver North

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Margaret Atwood

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Margaret Atwood

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Margaret Cho

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.