Quotes of: Story Keyword

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Richard Russo

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Albert Brooks

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

Anderson Cooper

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

Adam Driver

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Anita Desai

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Aminatta Forna

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Aleksandar Hemon

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

Amanda Hocking

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

Alice Hoffman

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Aisha Mirza

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alexander Payne

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

Anne Perry

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

Andrew Scott

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Andy Stanley

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

Ashley Williams

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

Bjorn Borg

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

Casey Kasem

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

Steve Saint

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

Sara Sheridan

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Sara Sheridan