Story Quotes

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...

I can change the story. I am the story.

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy an...

what's real within the story is real within the story

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some st...

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think b...

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it bette...

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to a...

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a li...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is ...

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? The...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, ea...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feel...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearan...

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, s...

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come...

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...

He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? D...

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in whi...

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best ...

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creatu...

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it det...

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi...

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of h...

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with...

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experienc...

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love whi...

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. ...

Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a wo...

As children', wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, 'we lived in Onsl...

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my under...

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some question...

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we ca...

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

You are never too old to become younger!

I built an idea in my head of the hero I wanted to be, a grab bag of traits from heroes, villains, a...

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my s...

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that ...

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the...

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, of...

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who cr...

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real sto...

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks ...

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think...

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he de...

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt agai...

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth conclu...

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale i...

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If t...

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watchin...

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not ...

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h...

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to he...

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies mad...

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrog...

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope fo...

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ...

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyte...

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of...

The truth of the story lies in the details.

A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for ...

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe...

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for...

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it ou...

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And...

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of st...

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh...

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.