Story You Quotes
198 Story You quotes by 176 unique authors
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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
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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
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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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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer…
— Tate Taylor
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best…
— Laozi
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With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".
— Peter Guber
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The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.
— Chris Brogan
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It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in…
— Unknown Author
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
— William Faulkner
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed…
— George Will
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the…
— Tony Robbins
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Life is funny. Life isn’t categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don’t know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why…
— Jennifer Aniston
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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as…
— Ali Smith
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If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.
— Jean Houston
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
— Isabel Allende
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If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.
— Unknown Author
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What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is…
— Harlan Coben
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You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story.…
— Toby Keith
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.…
— Eudora Welty
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections…
— Gayl Jones
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's…
— Rahm Emanuel
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Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the…
— Rhonda Byrne
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I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let…
— Faith Ringgold
Who Wrote These Story You Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 198 Story You Quotes, led by these top contributors: