Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Craighead George

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Those are the stories journalists have to do.

James Packer

History is His story.

James P. Hoffa

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James Patterson

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James O'Shaughnessy

History depends on who is telling the story.

John Berger

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

John Baird

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

Joey Skaggs

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joe Lando

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Joe Jonas

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

Jincy Willett

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Frank Darabont

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Jose Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kevin Spacey

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Kurt Busiek

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Khaled Hosseini

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Maggie Shayne

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Northrop Frye

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Norman Mailer

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Henri Matisse

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Henri Nouwen

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.