Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

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

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.

Nic Pizzolatto

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell

Jodi Picoult

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Keanu Reeves

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

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.

Lauren Oliver

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

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Paul Michael Glaser

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Paul Merton

I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Patricia MacLachlan

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

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.