Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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451. “Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart...”

— Nick Flynn

452. “Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.”

— William Bernbach

453. “If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.”

— Woody Guthrie

454. “Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people’s stories, it’s easier to understand their demeanor.”

— Joel Osteen

455. “I like directing much better. It’s more fun, that’s all there is to it. It’s essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It’s a high. I love it.”

— Mel Gibson

456. “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?”

— Salman Rushdie

457. “Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.”

— Jane Austen

458. “When you make music, you’re in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.”

— Jared Leto

459. “I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.”

— Gabby Douglas

460. “If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.”

— Isabel Allende

461. “There’s only one story, the story of your life.”

— Helen Keller

462. “I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.”

— Donald Miller

463. “Body of earth, don’t talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor – Why talk of anything else?”

— Rumi

464. “I have written a great many stories and I still don’t know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.”

— John Steinbeck

465. “The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. they had become stories.”

— Stephen Chbosky

466. “Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories – some of them deserving of novels in themselves.”

— Michael Scott

467. “The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.”

— Douglas Adams

468. “I don’t outline at all; I don’t find it useful, and I don’t like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.”

— Khaled Hosseini

469. “As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.”

— Marion Cotillard

470. “It wasn’t necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.”

— Donald Miller

471. “And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.”

— Dr. Seuss

472. “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this – two things: I crave truth. And I lie.”

— Tana French

473. “When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.”

— Sharon Creech

474. “Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can’t think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don’t build a story; you allow it to explode.”

— Ray Bradbury

475. “Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.”

— Quentin Tarantino

476. “I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we’ve got, which is “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” I told those stories many, many times.”

— Philip Pullman

477. “Good marketers tell a story.”

— Seth Godin

478. “We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

479. “Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all – a backdrop for the stories we must tell.”

— Kate Atkinson

480. “People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.”

— Donald Miller

481. “If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

482. “All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.”

— Isabel Allende

483. “For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.”

— William H. Gass

484. “I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.”

— Mario Puzo

485. “Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.”

— Jack London

486. “I love stories about misfits and underdogs.”

— Elizabeth Banks

487. “The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.”

— Criss Jami

488. “The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson

489. “Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.”

— Henry Ford

490. “Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.”

— Bruce Springsteen

491. “The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.”

— Pope Francis

492. “In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

493. “Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.”

— Barack Obama

494. “About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

495. “Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you’re going to convey theme cinematically. I’m a believer also.”

— Alfonso Cuaron

496. “Gratitude is what we are without a story.”

— Byron Katie

497. “You are the director of your own life story. Don’t cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.”

— Dane Cook

498. “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”

— Sylvia Plath

499. “My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.”

— Wole Soyinka

500. “A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.”

— Laura Bush