Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alber Elbaz

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Albert Camus

Don't let them tell us stories

Claire Danes

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Daniel Kahneman

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Conor McPherson

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

E. L. James

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

E. M. Forster

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

Douglas Rushkoff

New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

Donald Davis

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Donald E. Westlake

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Don DeLillo

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Donatella Versace

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Lessing

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Donald Kagan

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Craig Thompson

You're more than a story.

Daniel Quinn

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

Daniel Quinn

We are all captives of a story.

Dan Glickman

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

Dan Jenkins

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

Clint Eastwood

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Clint Eastwood

Every story has its demands.

Dan Chaon

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

Dan Chaon

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Brown

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

David Mamet

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

Darren Criss

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

Davy Rothbart

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

David Lynch

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

David Halberstam

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.