Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Iyanla Vanzant

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

Iyanla Vanzant

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Elton John

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

Nancy Werlin

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

Jose Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kevin Spacey

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

James Packer

History is His story.

James P. Hoffa

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James Patterson

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James Patterson

What are we but our stories?

James O'Shaughnessy

History depends on who is telling the story.

Henri Matisse

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Henri Nouwen

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Hilarie Burton

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Henry James

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Kurt Busiek

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

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.