Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)
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401. “I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.”

— Marlon Brando

402. “A mystery is solved with a story.”

— Daniel Handler

403. “What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I’m told.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

404. “The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.”

— C.G. Jung

405. “My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.”

— Ishmael Beah

406. “The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle.”

— Paul Auster

407. “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

408. “We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

409. “In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.”

— Carl Sagan

410. “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.”

— Eudora Welty

411. “God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

412. “There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.”

— Kate DiCamillo

413. “The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold.”

— Dan Brown

414. “Atari is a very sad story.”

— Steve Wozniak

415. “I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.”

— Miguel Ruiz

416. “Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

— Kristin Hannah

417. “Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”

— Anne Hathaway

418. “When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.”

— Eckhart Tolle

419. “The great thing about a short story is that it doesn’t have to trawl through someone’s whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.”

— Emma Donoghue

420. “He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.”

— Donald Miller

421. “Sherlock and Watson are a love story.”

— Martin Freeman

422. “A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

423. “It’s not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope – and that’s what I do with all my stories.”

— Cecelia Ahern

424. “Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.”

— Jeffery Deaver

425. “Because I’ve heard so many stories that I don’t know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.”

— Jay Asher

426. “A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

427. “I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.”

— Brooke Burns

428. “Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

— Cecelia Ahern

429. “Stories are a different kind of true.”

— Emma Donoghue

430. “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

431. “Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.”

— Phil Crosby

432. “The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

433. “And as he spoke, I was thinking, ’the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.”

— Philip Roth

434. “Is falling in love with someone’s story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

— Ally Condie

435. “We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.”

— Oliver Sacks

436. “If you aren’t telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.”

— Donald Miller

437. “It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”

— Patrick Ness

438. “The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God’s creative genius is endless.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

439. “I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.”

— Quentin Tarantino

440. “In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.”

— Chinua Achebe

441. “And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.”

— Lana Del Rey

442. “My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.”

— Rihanna

443. “You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

444. “I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

445. “I’m simply pointing out that what happens to us isn’t the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we’re not together.”

— Nick Hornby

446. “The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

447. “You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

448. “I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.”

— Sara Blakely

449. “Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect.”

— Patrick Ness

450. “Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.”

— Lisa Bonet