Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2024 Update)
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51. “If you own this story you get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

52. “Everything starts with a story.”

— Joseph Campbell

53. “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

54. “Everybody has a story. And there’s something to be learned from every experience.”

— Oprah Winfrey

55. “Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

56. “To survive, you must tell stories.”

— Umberto Eco

57. “Why ruin a good story with the truth?”

— Woody Allen

58. “A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

59. “Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.”

— Rick Warren

60. “Every love story is a ghost story.”

— David Foster Wallace

61. “If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

62. “If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule – a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”

— John Steinbeck

63. “If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.”

— Jack Kerouac

64. “The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth – the very thing the whole story has been about.”

— C. S. Lewis

65. “Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.”

— Mark Twain

66. “We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.”

— Jerome S. Bruner

67. “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

68. “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak

69. “Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story.”

— Cassandra Clare

70. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

— Joan Didion

71. “Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.”

— Richard Branson

72. “Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”

— Nicholas Sparks

73. “Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.”

— Suzanne Collins

74. “But that is another story and shall be told another time.”

— Michael Ende

75. “This moment will just be another story someday.”

— Stephen Chbosky

76. “Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”

— Ernest Hemingway

77. “Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.”

— Miguel Ruiz

78. “Every man is a hero of his own story.”

— Brandon Sanderson

79. “The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.”

— Miguel Ruiz

80. “Whoever tells the best story wins.”

— John Quincy Adams

81. “The story of your life is not your life; it’s your story.”

— John Barth

82. “Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

— Stephen King

83. “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”

— William Faulkner

84. “Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

85. “History is a story written by the finger of God.”

— C. S. Lewis

86. “I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

87. “Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.”

— Eduardo Galeano

88. “If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

89. “The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”

— Mary Catherine Bateson

90. “Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all.”

— Philip Pullman

91. “Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.”

— Demi Lovato

92. “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

— Joss Whedon

93. “You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”

— Garrison Keillor

94. “That’s what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.”

— Haruki Murakami

95. “Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.”

— Donald Miller

96. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

97. “We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.”

— Tony Robbins

98. “Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet.”

— Angelina Jolie

99. “Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.”

— Rumi

100. “Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”

— Neil Gaiman