Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Douglas Wilson

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Donald Miller

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

Donald Miller

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Colleen Atwood

Every project starts with a 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.

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?

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.

David Caruso

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Dan Brown

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Daniel Woodrell

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

Daniel Woodrell

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Dave Eggers

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

Dave Eggers

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Dave Eggers

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

David Lee Roth

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

David Levithan

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

David Levithan

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

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.