Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Bruce Springsteen

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Brian K. Vaughan

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Bill Hader

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Daniel Handler

A mystery is solved with a story.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Eli Wallach

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Eli Roth

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Bruce Springsteen

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Brit Marling

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Brian Greene

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Ben Okri

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Barbara Kingsolver

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Barbara Kingsolver

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Augusten Burroughs

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Arthur Machen

Old stories often turn out to be true.

Atul Gawande

And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Elena Anaya

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

Elfriede Jelinek

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

Deepak Chopra

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'