Top 100 Every Story Quotes
#1. ..love is as complex an emotion as exists. There are many reasons why love does not prosper.
.. the waters are perilous, and you would do well to know that, because unlike your novels, not every story has a happy ending.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
#3. Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
Jack Kirby
#4. Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#5. THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end?
Amy Harmon
#6. Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.
Larry Page
#7. There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells me that? I say well of course there are two sides to every story, and one side is WRONG!
Nikki Sex
#8. Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.
Veronika Carnaby
#9. Every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged
Max Barry
#10. Not every story has a happy ending. Some only hold a happy beginning.
Rachel Higginson
#11. Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction ... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
Neil Gaiman
#12. He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.
Eli Brown
#13. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.
Beverly S. Harless
#14. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
Karin Slaughter
#15. My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.
Sarah Shahi
#16. Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.
Samantha Hunt
#17. Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
John Branch
#18. Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
Rafael Yglesias
#19. When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
Natalie Portman
#20. Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.
Melinda West Seifert
#21. Every story has an end, I just try to end it on the right note.
Siamack Ghadimi
#22. Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
Michael Horton
#23. When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.
Betty White
#25. There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
Hannah Kent
#26. We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.
L.M. Halloran
#28. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
#29. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.
Lesley Livingston
#30. Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Umberto Eco
#31. ( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... )
Salman Rushdie
#32. In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
Douglas Lain
#33. I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
Robert Sheckley
#34. The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.
Jess Walter
#35. I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.
Edward R. Murrow
#36. It's the journey and events that shape us all into individuals. There are always two side to every story.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.
Kevin Keck
#38. Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
Beth Kephart
#39. Every story has multiple points of view, don't listen to just one.
Debby Feo
#40. This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
Gabrielle Zevin
#43. Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
Additi Gupta
#44. Life isn't easy. Would that every story ended happily, every crisis be averted, everything get a pretty shiny bow, but that's not the world we live in. Life is harsh. Things go wrong, People get hurt, and some even die. That's just the way it goes.
Daniel Younger
#45. Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
Siegfried Lenz
#46. People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.
David Reeves
#48. Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.
Marion Dane Bauer
#50. Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
Eudora Welty
#51. Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.
Max Landis
#52. Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.
Lynsey Addario
#53. Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
Dave Eggers
#55. This is not the end, of course. Every story we read, every film we watch, continues in our imagination if we allow it.
Hugh Howey
#56. Every story has an ending. You can't stop after one chapter just because you don't know how it ends
J.C. Reed
#57. Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery.
M.J. Rose
#58. Every story has a true name. I wish this story's name could be different, but nothing will change it. This story is The Book of You.
Claire Kendal
#59. For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.
John C. Wright
#60. Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.
Kelly Barnhill
#61. You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.
Tyler Oakley
#62. There's three sides to every story."
"What do you mean?"
"There's your version, the other person's, and then there's the truth, which is somewhere in the middle of the two.
Helena Hunting
#63. Love'? What do you know about love?"
"It's at the heart of every story," Rollo said with authority. "If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.
Jessica Day George
#64. If time were a river, he felt as if eternity had stopped beside him on the bank to rest, sharing every story ever told, every victory ever won, every love ever known.
Julia Butler
#65. Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.
Evan Mandery
#66. Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.
Luanne Rice
#67. Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.
Colleen Atwood
#68. Where dark woods hide secrets and mountains are fierce and bold. Deep waters hold reflections of times lost long ago. I will heed every story, take hold of my own dream. Be as strong as the sea is stormy, be as proud as an eagle's scream.
Julie Fowlis
#69. You see, in every story, it's not about the ending. It's about the chapters in between and how you make it through them
Courtney Giardina
#71. It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.
Rebekah Brooks
#72. Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress
#73. There is a story behind everything and every story is worth telling...
Anupam Sharma
#74. In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Parker J. Palmer
#75. I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written. There were no bad stories: every story was new and glorious.
Neil Gaiman
#76. Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
Andy Stanley
#77. Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
Caroline Lawrence
#78. I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand - every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.
Camron Wright
#79. Leaders approach conflict with an eye for resolution. When handled effectively, successful confrontations raise team performance. To manage conflict effectively, you must begin by recognizing there are three sides to every story:
Yours / Theirs / The Truth
Angie Morgan
#80. Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!
Perry Noble
#81. He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.
Darren Shan
#82. I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Clarice Lispector
#83. It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.
Elif Shafak
#84. Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
Maury Yeston
#85. We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
Richard Peck
#86. Every story is a scorcher and has the ultimate alpha-male character. - AngelinaT
Scarlett Avery
#87. In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.
J.M. Coetzee
#89. Once there was, and one day there will be. This is the beginning of every story. "Once
Traci Chee
#90. We all have scars; some scars can be seen and others cannot. Every scar has a story and every story needs to be told.
Rebecca Shea
#91. There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
Lisa Ling
#92. Where there's love there's victory
in every story there's a purpose
Sometimes the answers don't come clearly
But where there's love there's victory.
My Dear Mae (In Harm's Way album)
Phyllis Wheaton
#93. If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.
Gloria Steinem
#94. Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between those two points is the journey.
R.C. Richter
#95. It's just that every story of woe and tragedy throughout history starts out with those exact same three words. 'There's this girl
Mia Sheridan
#96. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.
John Davidson
#97. If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
Jessica Brody
#98. Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.
Christina Aguilera
#100. Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ...
Linda Sue Park
