Story Quotes

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

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

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

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

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.