Story Quotes
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I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
Kara Swisher
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O'Connor
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Probably the biggest story was when I got married in '61.
Dick Trickle
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
Ira Glass
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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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.
Ian Rankin
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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
MF DOOM
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If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.
Diogo Morgado
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To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in.
Brian D. McLaren
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
Jack Vance
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Salman Rushdie
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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
Jacki Weaver
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The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
Linda Ronstadt
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
Jason Aldean
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Joanne Rowling
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
Franz Kafka
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Nikolai Gogol
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We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'
Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
Frances McDormand
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
Karin Slaughter
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W. S. Merwin