Story Quotes

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

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.

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

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

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

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

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.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

A good story never dies.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

All true stories end in death.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.