Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Pierce

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

Will Packer

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Walter Benjamin

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Samuel Richardson

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Salma Hayek

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Salman Rushdie

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Kenneth Burke

Stories are equipment for living.

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Scott Pelley

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

Scott Pelley

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

Scarlett Thomas

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Sebastiao Salgado

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Si Robertson

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Shelley Hennig

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

Seymour Hersh

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place...

Seth

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Sean Taylor

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Lawrence Block

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

Laura Riding

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.