Story Quotes

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

Isn't any friendship a love story?

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.