Story Quotes

Some relationships are like glass its better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together again. When you start reading the Bunna Man, most of my readers hate Dre and then they realize that Dre doesn't really have any power. The only power he has is the one Saf gave him. What happens now is that by you reach the middle of the story, your anger turns from Dre to Saf cause you realize that Saf is the catalyst behind her own misery. If she'd leave Dre alone. Her suffering would end

~ Crystal Evans

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

~ Sarah Dalton

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

~ Richard House

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

~ Neil Gaiman

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

~ Marcus Sedgwick

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

~ Vera Nazarian

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

~ Vera Nazarian

Every story needs to be worth telling.

~ Vera Nazarian

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,' and I lay with Jonas listening to his stories.

~ Shirley Jackson

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

~ Brent M. Jones

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

~ Patti Callahan Henry

Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

~ Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?Archer shook his head.What you do makes you who you are....

~ Traci Chee

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

~ Lily Graham

Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.

~ Samantha Hunt

Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an inclusive exploration of the intricacies of what it encompasses to be human. Stories enable us to comprehend the ultimate concerns of human existence and explicitly address the unalterable part of humanity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It's difficult from one story to jump in another story, 2 stories are okay for one hour. But more and more characters you start losing the link. (Thriller 2)

~ Deyth Banger

If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

~ Kay Honeyman

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

~ Jodi Picoult

Everyone has a story - find yours!

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

~ Amit Kalantri

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

~ Linda Joy Myers

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

~ Michele Jennae

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

~ Chris Cleave

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

~ Rinsai Rossetti

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

~ Margaret Thatcher

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

~ David Grossman

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I am content when writing short stories.

~ Sarah Mazucci

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried.

~ Brandon Villasenor

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

~ Robert Mckee

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

~ Steve Maraboli

There are a lot of conventions, a vocabulary and a set of practices and assumptions that underlie most professional book design. Since design is important to the eventual success of your book whether you attempt to do it yourself or hire it out, it pays to know something about those conventions and assumptions. After all, we don’t want anything getting in the way of your communication with your readers. You’ve got a message for them, a story to tell, or ideas to spread. That’s what’s important.

~ Joel Friedlander

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

~ George Orwell

No conflict no story

~ Antonio Nuñez Lopez

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

~ Margaret Atwood