If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I…

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in…

— Lucia Puenzo

“He has a story. A story worth more than my own beating heart. He has a name. A name that — if it were…

— S.G. Night

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature…

— Peter Behrens

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

“It was a story to tell myself, a promise. Saying out loud, "You're never going to touch me again" - that was a piece…

— Dorothy Allison

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your story doesn't…

— Terry Pratchett

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

— George Balanchine

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

— Maximilian Schell

“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a…

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

— Adrian Rogers