Best One Story Quotes

64 One Story quotes by 55 unique authors

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what… — Brian Andreas
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story. — Sylvia Day
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one… — Michael Cunningham
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single… — Nicolas Roeg
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they… — Maxine Hong Kingston
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know. — Bruno Mars
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to… — John Steinbeck
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one… — Nick Flynn
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing… — Salman Rushdie
We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth… — Jeanette Winterson
There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one… — Charles de Lint
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we… — Wendell Berry
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. — Ivan Doig
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book… — Donald Miller
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves. — Patrick Rothfuss
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends… — Mitch Albom
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the… — Virginia Woolf
Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had… — Gordon Korman
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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