Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrew Scott

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Ann Patchett

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Angela Bettis

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Ang Lee

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

Anne Fortier

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

Christopher Meloni

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

Angelina Jolie

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

Andrew Clements

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

Amy Bloom

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Annette Bening

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

Annette Funicello

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Anne Rice

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

Andrew Stanton

The best stories infuse wonder,

Andrew Stanton

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

Andrew Stanton

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Andrew Stanton

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

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.