Story Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Oscar Wilde
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Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
Nicholas Sparks -
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
Hermann Hesse -
Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
Ian Somerhalder -
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
Haley Joel Osment -
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
Edmund Phelps -
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
Waris Ahluwalia -
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens -
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
Kate Capshaw -
The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
Cameron Crowe -
They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.
Celine Dion
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
Ram Charan -
Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
Phil Collins Genesis -
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair -
The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
Omari Hardwick -
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
Damon Lindelof -
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
Rainbow Rowell
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For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
Sandra Brown -
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac -
True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .
J. R. R. Tolkien -
People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
Katee Sackhoff