Story Quotes

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

~ Margaret Atwood

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

~ Kevin Smith

The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.

~ Peter Guber

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

~ Beeban Kidron

All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.

~ Tom Weston-Jones

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

~ Mary Stuart Masterson

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

~ Walter Cronkite

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

~ Theodore Sturgeon

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

~ Nicolas Cage

Every great brand is like a great story.

~ Kevin Plank

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

~ John Boorman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

~ Alan Rickman

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

~ Jim Brown

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

~ Regina Brett

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.

~ Eric Holder

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

~ Tim Crouch

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

~ Gloria Gaither

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

~ Nargis Fakhri

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

~ Gene Siskel

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

~ Quentin Tarantino

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

~ Salman Rushdie

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

~ Heather Graham

It's the story that counts.

~ Vincente Minnelli

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

~ Bradley Whitford

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

~ David Carson

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

~ Frank Zappa

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

~ Robert Rodríguez

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

~ Lynn Coady

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

~ Travis Tritt

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

~ Nick Wechsler

'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

~ Pete Docter

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

~ David Whyte

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

~ Felicity Jones

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

~ Marion Barry

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

~ Amy Purdy