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Story Quotes & Sayings

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My story begins with a question. — Alexandra Bogdanovic

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. — Mae West

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

A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. — Suzanne Selfors

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time. — Ellen Emerson White

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right. — David E. Kelley

The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley

Everything is the story. — Rainbow Rowell

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance, — Greg Grandin

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me. — Nanci Griffith

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. — Walter Cronkite

I liked the way his story ended with someone else. — John Green

Be the story teller in your life ... never let anyone dictate what you're about. — Robbie Thomas

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

You must live your story. — Michael Ende

My friends have made the story of my life. — Helen Keller

People who hide there feelings usually cares the most — Swapna Rajput

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone

For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay. — Nikki Rowe

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other. — Malala Yousafzai

Sherlock and Watson are a love story — Martin Freeman

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story. — Teri Hatcher

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians! — Eli Of Kittim

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this. — Jandy Nelson

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story — Jonathan Gottschall

I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story. — Laura Fraser

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story. — Nikki Rosen

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. — Frank Tuttle

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story. — Malorie Blackman

Every time you suffer a negative blow in life, simply turn it into a character for a story, make it pay, and kill it off!! — A.M. Sawyer

Maybe some people are meant to be in the same story. — Jandy Nelson

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. — Michelle Williams

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. — Viggo Mortensen

We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. — Danielle Ganek

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. — Kathryn Harrison

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. — Lisa Mangum

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. — John Darnielle

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. — George Lucas

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness. — Javier Marias

Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1 — Santosh Avvannavar

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges

Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs. — Natalie Ansard

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. — Thomas C. Foster

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me — Deirdre Riordan Hall

What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another? — Rachel Hauck

This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. — Douglas Adams

There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story. — Marty Rubin

But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out. — Seanan McGuire

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles. — Kangana Ranaut

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change. — James Daly

I think it's time for you to drop back into my life, ruin it, then disappear again: a love story. The — Melissa Broder

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

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don't like where your story is headin', you fight your fate with everything you have. — Jessica Fortunato

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield

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

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?' — Terry Zwigoff

I have a story to tell to anyone who is willing to listen. — Samy Dib

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

Every painting tells a story. — A.D. Posey

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

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. — Kurt Loder

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie

Everybody is a story. — Rachel Naomi Remen

I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share. — John Darnielle

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element. — Harrison Ford

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told. — Anastasia Hollings

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. — Christopher Nolan

When "history" loses its "story," it becomes only an empty greeting in one voice. — Kay Moore

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind — S.L. Northey

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

One story ... one life ... one me ... consistently! Live It Well. — Chris Vonada

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard. — Carol Berg

If something wants to be a story, it will be. — Scarlett Thomas

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

I will be lost and unlost, over
and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story. — Nayyirah Waheed

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story. — Rob Walton

If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward. — Ben Tolosa

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. — Wendell Berry

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. — Amy Purdy

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write. — Richard Flanagan

The story you are holding was first published in 1969, which was, as you may know, a very interesting year. — Mario Puzo