Story Pick Quotes

#1. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

Majid Kazmi

#2. I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#3. I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

Patrick Wilson

#4. Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

Nora Roberts

#5. I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Rachel McAdams

#6. And I mouth into the phone, I love you, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.

Ned Vizzini

#7. You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force the protagonist to put his money where his mouth is. Think baptism by ever-escalating fire.

Lisa Cron

#8. I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

David Macaulay

#9. I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

Amish Tripathi

#10. Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.

Josh Peck

#11. Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

Michael Arrington

#12. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ...

Thomas Carlyle

#13. The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.

Amit Kalantri

#14. I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

Alan Furst

#15. If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Vaughn Monroe

#16. Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.

Kate Beaton

#17. There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

Jodie Foster

#18. I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.

Amit Kalantri

#19. The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

Jonathan Stroud

#20. He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of your bones.

C.J. Carlyon

#21. For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

Kaza Kingsley

#23. I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places ... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

Max Landis

#24. How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

Markus Zusak

#25. I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

Aaron Stanford

#26. You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before ...

Ned Vizzini

#27. This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start. I pick up my pen and begin to write:
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something.

Michelle Hodkin

#28. Whenever you're down on your luck, and when things aren't going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

Sarah Jio

#29. Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henry Hampton

#30. Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

Ben Mendelsohn

#31. If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.

Amit Kalantri

#32. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Zack Love

#33. If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you

Rick Riordan

#34. In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

Garret Dillahunt

#35. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#36. You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

John Mulaney

#37. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.

Alice Walsh

#38. We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

Kevin J. Anderson

#39. I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Sue Monk Kidd

#40. Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

Leonard Ravenhill

#41. The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.

Amit Kalantri

#42. This creature was evil and monstrous because we made him that way; it wasn't like he got to pick his origin story.

Ann Aguirre

#43. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.

Amit Kalantri

#44. Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

Mahesh Babu

#45. Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

Thomas Canty

#46. If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.

George Saunders

#47. When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Walter Isaacson

#48. There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

Maria Semple

#49. I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

Jackie Collins

#50. The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Elton John

#51. It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too tired to keep reading, or a video put on pause. I wanted to pick back up with the story and find out what happened to the characters, except that the characters were us.

Joyce Maynard

#52. Sometimes I can even pick up messages intended for other aethographors." He frowned a moment. "Story of my life, if you think about it.

Gail Carriger

#53. In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you.

Amit Kalantri

#54. You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.

Jim Sturgess

#55. Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own

Holly Smale

#56. A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.

Suzanne Selfors

#57. It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

Brad Pitt

#58. Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

Amit Kalantri

#59. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?

Amit Kalantri

#60. I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.

Dwayne McDuffie

#61. If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Paul E. Miller

#62. If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.

Amit Kalantri

#63. Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.

Greg Lake

#64. If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.

Amit Kalantri

#65. I have eaten too many types of cuisines and food. For me, every dish has their own taste and story. I can't pick the best dish I've ever had, simply because I enjoy all food types!

Rinrin Marinka