Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Maynard

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

I just want to get it straight, ... There are so many stories out there.

There's no end to these stories being out there, because they sell,

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.

Investigators wanted to make sure that their stories matched.

J. J. Abrams

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

J. J. Abrams

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Irwin Shaw

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Ira Glass

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Ira Glass

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Isabel Allende

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Isabel Allende

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Isabel Allende

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Isabel Allende

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Ford

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

Guy Pearce

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Greg Giraldo

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

I'm the first to acknowledge those stories turned out to be wrong. But journalists get things wrong every day.

Pedro Almodovar

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

But we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Tess Gerritsen

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Andy Weir

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

Michelle Paver

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

Mark Sheppard

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Stephen Jay Gould

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.