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

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Dean Koontz

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O'Connor

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Spike Lee

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Spike Lee

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
Shia LaBeouf

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
Denzel Washington

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
Eddie Murphy

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Neil Young

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk