Best Story Sayings

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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story… — Bill Bryson
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. — Jimmy Buffett
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad… — Mitch Albom
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. — Mitch Albom
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in… — Mitch Albom
Every movie is a love story. — Sandra Bullock
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. — Steve Buscemi
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of… — Alan Alda
The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the… — Jason Aldean
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's… — Octavia Butler
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… — Meg Cabot
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar
Every great story seems to begin with a snake. — Nicolas Cage
The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes. — Nicolas Cage
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris… — Herman Cain
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the… — David Cameron
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In… — James Cameron
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them… — Jane Campion
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. — Jane Campion
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love… — Jane Campion
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as… — John le Carre
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels… — John le Carre

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