Story Quotes
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
Harry Dean Stanton
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
Steven Spielberg
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Improvise. Write your own damn story.
Eric Lange
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Rudyard Kipling
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
Scarlett Thomas
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
Catherynne M. Valente
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Everyone has a story that changed their life forever. Remember to have compassion.
Katrina Mayer
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Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.
Brian D. McLaren
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This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
Winston Duke
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
Sarah Pinborough
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
Sarah Koenig
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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
Catherynne M. Valente
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Erwin McManus
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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
Harvey Keitel
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Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
Tom Hanks
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
Cressida Cowell
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
Harrison Ford
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
Susan Hill
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
Margaret Mitchell
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Steven Spielberg