Story Quotes

Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

I think women love to read love stories.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly. [...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

The best defense is a good story.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

almost all novels are love stories.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.