Story Quotes - page 4

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. (Agatha Christie)
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. View quote
Johnny Depp
The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. View quote
Phil Ochs
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. View quote
William Faulkner
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. View quote
Penn Jillette
I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do. View quote
Davey Havok
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. View quote
Keanu Reeves
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams-a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told-sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. (Margaret Wheatley)
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. View quote
A. C. Benson
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
'T is an old tale and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me. View quote
Walter Scott
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.' View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. View quote
C. S. Lewis
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. View quote
Quentin Crisp
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. View quote
Manuel Puig
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. (Manuel Puig)
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. View quote
Mark Strand
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. View quote
Mark Haddon
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. View quote
Meg Cabot
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. View quote
Penelope Lively