Story Quotes

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.

It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

The story is told of yourself.

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.

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

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

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

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

But that is another story.

And thereby hangs a tale.

My first kiss. One tiny, sweet, cosmic kiss. Like falling from a star, onto a cloud, and into a love song.

...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love."(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation

Can dimples wink? Because I felt like his just did.

one plus one equal one. it is correct, only in love!

You're kind of... distracting.Am I?Yes. In the best way.

She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.

i asked God to give me a love via synchronicity so when it was my time to allow someone into my heart ~ he entered my world, as if by magic.

I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

If he treats you a choice like A, B, C, and D, help him understand that YOU are not belong in the choices.

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.