Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Sergio Aragones

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Jen Lancaster

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Dan Millman

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Cornelia Funke

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

Conan O'Brien

It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

Conan O'Brien

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

Henry Petroski

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Baz Luhrmann

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

David Eddings

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Benioff

I like having my own story remain my story.

Dario Argento

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Dani Shapiro

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

Dan Rather

I know that this story is true.

Stephen Jay Gould

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

Heather Graham

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Jean Craighead George

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Those are the stories journalists have to do.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Alice McDermott

We are surrounded by story.

Alice Munro

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Alice Hoffman

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Anne McCaffrey

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.