Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Marilyn Monroe

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Nikki Giovanni

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Matt Drudge

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

John Green

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

John Green

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

John Green

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

P. T. Barnum

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Markus Zusak

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Michael Hastings

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

Michael Hastings

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Christina Baldwin

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Christina Baldwin

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Ricci

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

Chris Noth

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Gerard Way

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Hayao Miyazaki

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Francesca Lia Block

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

George Saunders

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

John P. Kotter

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

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.