Story Quotes

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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that. — Lance Armstrong
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel… — Chinua Achebe
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost… — Chinua Achebe
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link… — David Attenborough
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… — Chinua Achebe
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Jane Austen
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen… — Paul Auster
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. — Jensen Ackles
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I… — Amitabh Bachchan
I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story… — Kevin Bacon
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant… — Russell Baker
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… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. — Clive Barker
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
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… — James M. Barrie
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth

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