Story Quotes - page 3

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning. (Rosemary Sutcliff)
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. View quote
Lionel Shriver
Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears. View quote
Lisa Bonet
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman. View quote
Gérard Depardieu
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. View quote
Jack Kerouac
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. View quote
Robert Frost
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . View quote
Henry James
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. View quote
O. Henry
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. (Stephen Hawking)
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. View quote
Raymond Chandler
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing. View quote
Raymond Chandler
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. View quote
Wilkie Collins
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally. View quote
Ani DiFranco
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. (Christopher Nolan)
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. View quote
Eudora Welty
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk