Story Quotes - page 2

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Maya Angelou)
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. View quote
Helen Hayes
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. View quote
Abraham Maslow
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. View quote
Walter Cronkite
Every love story is a ghost story. View quote
David Foster Wallace
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. View quote
Rex Stout
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. View quote
Wentworth Miller
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. (Stendhal)
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. View quote
Emil Ludwig
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. View quote
Arthur Miller
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it. View quote
Ben Carson
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it. (Anne McCaffrey)
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. View quote
Horacio Quiroga
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. View quote
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