Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

William Saroyan

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

William Morris Hunt

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

Will Gluck

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

Sarah Addison Allen

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Willem Dafoe

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Warren Spector

Good stories are constructed, not found,

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Yahoo Serious

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

William Throsby Bridges

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Zadie Smith

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Zhang Yimou

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Wendell Pierce

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

W. Somerset Maugham

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Yann Martel

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Yann Martel

Most of us get our history through story.

Yann Martel

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Wolf Blitzer

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Zoe Saldana

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.