Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jim Lehrer

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

George Lucas

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

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.

Karen Russell

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

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

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?

Maggie Shayne

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a 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.

Matt Walsh

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

Matt Smith

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Jonathan Franzen

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'.

Jonathan Carroll

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Joyce Carol Oates

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.