Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Isabel Allende

305. “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

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

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Seth Godin

309. “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

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

— Chinua Achebe

311. “Sad stories make good books.”

— Khaled Hosseini

312. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

314. “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

315. “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

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

— Patrick Ness

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Utah Phillips

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. “So yo then man what’s your story?”

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Vanna Bonta

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— C. S. Lewis

325. “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

326. “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

327. “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

328. “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

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

— Ken Kesey

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

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— John Eldredge

333. “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

334. “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

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. “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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

338. “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

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

— Roald Dahl

340. “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

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

342. “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

343. “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

344. “For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”

— Steven Erikson

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

— James Patterson

346. “Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn’t have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”

— Sandra Brown

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. “The short story is the literature of the nomad.”

— John Cheever

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

— Byron Katie

350. “Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”

— Neil Gaiman