Story Quotes

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. (Thucydides)
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. View quote
Virginia Woolf
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end ... but not necessarily in that order. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
We are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. View quote
Morgan Freeman
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. View quote
J. M. Barrie
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. View quote
Jack Kerouac
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. View quote
John Barth
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. (Jimi Hendrix)
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. View quote
Ed Bradley
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. View quote
Winston Churchill
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. View quote
Walt Disney
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. View quote
Frank Luntz
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. View quote
Groucho Marx
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. View quote
John Updike
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. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. View quote
George Eliot
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! (William Makepeace Thackeray)
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. View quote
George R. R. Martin
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. View quote
Karen Blixen
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. View quote
Dashiell Hammett