Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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251. “A child’s own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.”

— Margaret Wise Brown

252. “And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”

— Erin Morgenstern

253. “A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

— Isaac Babel

254. “The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

255. “I generally write a first draft that’s pretty lean. Just get the story down.”

— Nora Roberts

256. “The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.”

— Rob Bell

257. “That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”

— Richard Bach

258. “Remember that ‘plumber in space’ is not such a bad setup for a story.”

— Stephen King

259. “And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”

— Erin Morgenstern

260. “Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.”

— Michael Scott

261. “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”

— Ben Okri

262. “Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.”

— Chris Cleave

263. “When I write I pretend I’m telling a story to someone in the room and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished.”

— James Patterson

264. “Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you’re a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.”

— Neil Gaiman

265. “Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.”

— Francesca Lia Block

266. “I think that’s a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.”

— Erin Morgenstern

267. “We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Tony Robbins

268. “You know when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!”

— Steve Martin

269. “No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.”

— Nora Ephron

270. “The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.”

— Byron Katie

271. “Take it that you have died today, and your life’s story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.”

— Marcus Aurelius

272. “In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

— Walter Cronkite

273. “A short story is like a kiss in the dark.”

— Stephen King

274. “A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.”

— Walt Disney

275. “We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”

— Barack Obama

276. “Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

— Leo Buscaglia

277. “Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.”

— James Dashner

278. “Living is really pretty simple. Living happens right now; it doesn’t happen back then, and it doesn’t happen out there. Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.”

— Werner Erhard

279. “The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.”

— Paul Auster

280. “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

— Donald Miller

281. “When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

282. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.”

— Gilda Radner

283. “A story? No. No stories, never again.”

— Maurice Blanchot

284. “Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”

— Sharon Salzberg

285. “Change your story, change your life. Basically, that’s what it is.”

— Deepak Chopra

286. “The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.”

— Nelson Mandela

287. “A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”

— Khaled Hosseini

288. “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

289. “That’s the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”

— Marilyn Monroe

290. “Everyone’s got a different story.”

— Emma Donoghue

291. “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”

— Mark Twain

292. “The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

293. “People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”.”

— Ken Burns

294. “What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.”

— Isabel Allende

295. “Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

296. “Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.”

— Elif Shafak

297. “With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

298. “There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

299. “Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

300. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.”

— Libba Bray