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Quotes About Story

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.
~ Dwight V. Swain
And so it goes with words and language. They're tools. All your writing life, you work with them . . . using them to tie your reader to your story.
~ Dwight V. Swain
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
~ Oliver Sacks
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.
~ Rick Warren
Life is like a B-picture script.
~ Kirk Douglas
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
~ Helen Mirren
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
~ Marianne Williamson
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
~ Samuel Beckett
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
~ Dan Millman
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
~ Ted Turner
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
~ Rumer Godden
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.
~ Norman Maclean
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!
~ Rhonda Byrne
To me, life is memories and experiences.
~ Renzo Gracie
Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
~ Anne Hathaway
Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.
~ Kobi Yamada
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.
~ Corrine Brown
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
~ Dane Cook
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
~ R. Kelly
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
~ Amy Poehler