Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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301. “I have a story that will make you believe in God.”

— Yann Martel

302. “To finish is a sadness to a writer – a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.”

— John Steinbeck

303. “I’m not ashamed, or embarrassed. I’m happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and a story. That’s what I am and that’s what I’ll always be from. I was never running away from it.”

— Katy Perry

304. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.”

— Seth Godin

305. “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

306. “I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.”

— Leonard Cohen

307. “Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

308. “Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.”

— J.D. Salinger

309. “A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

310. “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.”

— Stephen Chbosky

311. “People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”

— Chinua Achebe

312. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

313. “Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.”

— Paul Auster

314. “Sad stories make good books.”

— Khaled Hosseini

315. “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”

— Louise Erdrich

316. “If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”

— Horace Mann

317. “Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”

— C. S. Lewis

318. “Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”

— Patrick Ness

319. “We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”

— Erykah Badu

320. “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”

— John Grisham

321. “No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”

— Mitch Albom

322. “The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”

— Vanna Bonta

323. “Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

— Mitch Albom

324. “Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember.”

— Utah Phillips

325. “So yo then man what’s your story?”

— David Foster Wallace

326. “But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.”

— Paul Auster

327. “I’m just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I’ve been through.”

— Katy Perry

328. “Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

329. “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”

— Graham Greene

330. “Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it’s the journey between that makes the story worth telling.”

— Chris Colfer

331. “No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it’s just the best gift there is. And it’s free.”

— Eliza Dushku

332. “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

— Hilary Mantel

333. “Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.”

— James Patterson

334. “The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.”

— John Eldredge

335. “I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”

— Edith Wharton

336. “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”

— Cheryl Strayed

337. “To hell with facts! We need stories.”

— Ken Kesey

338. “That’s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”

— Samuel Beckett

339. “Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.”

— Byron Katie

340. “Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

341. “Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can’t survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

— Brené Brown

342. “When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”

— George Washington

343. “Some people just see the glory and they don’t want to know about the story.”

— Matt Damon

344. “In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.”

— Maeve Binchy

345. “At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you’ll have left.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

346. “If you say you’re worthy, you are. If you say you’re not worthy, you’re not. Either way you will live into your story.”

— T. Harv Eker

347. “You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.”

— Ernest Hemingway

348. “For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.”

— Roald Dahl

349. “There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going.”

— Steve Jobs

350. “Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.”

— John Berger