Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Wiggs

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Taron Egerton

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

Stephen King

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Stephen King

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Stephen King

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Stephen King

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stephen King

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Stephen King

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

Stephen King

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Stephen King

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stanley Tucci

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Starhawk

Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

Stan Lee

When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

Taylor Swift

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Marcia Clark

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

Simon Baker

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Shia LaBeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Shekhar Kapur

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Taylor Swift

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Tony Robbins

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

Tony Robbins

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

Thucydides

Stories happen to those who tell them.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Tim O'Brien

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Steven Shainberg

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

Steven Spielberg

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Robert Bringhurst

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.