The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
Reba McEntire

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
Moon Unit Zappa

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
John Le Carre

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.
Jimmy Fallon

It's all about letting the story take over.
Robert Stone

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Stendhal

The story is more important to me than the part.
Catherine Deneuve

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Michael Pollan