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Story Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “If you are waiting for success to share your failure story, you have not yet understood failure well.”

Ankur Warikoo

2. “Success we all get to see. Stories we rarely get to hear. The lesson is in the story. Not the success.”

Ankur Warikoo

3. “If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

4. “Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

5. “Every morning has a unique story. There are always some seeds of possibilities waiting to sprout.”

Amit Ray

6. “Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.”

Charlie Chaplin

7. “Caution is the lower story of prudence.”

Thomas Carlyle

8. “Don’t rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.”

Chuck Palahniuk

9. “That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.”

Chuck Palahniuk

10. “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

Chuck Palahniuk

11. “We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

Chuck Palahniuk

12. “The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.”

Chuck Palahniuk

13. “Our first invention was the story.”

Ray Kurzweil

14. “Logic: yes, where is logic? Where is it, for instance, in the next moment of my story?”

Julian Barnes

15. “Susan had pointed out that everyone has their love story. Even if it was a fiasco, even if it fizzled out, never got going, had all been in the mind to begin with: that didn’t make it any the less real. And it was the only story.”

Julian Barnes

16. “Perhaps love could never be captured in a definition; it could only ever be captured in a story.”

Julian Barnes

17. “And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another’s future.”

Max Lucado

18. “When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”

George Washington

19. “If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.”

Pablo Picasso

20. “In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”

Jeff Bezos

21. “Meet Mrs. Bundren, he says.”

William Faulkner

22. “The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.”

Philip Pullman

23. “Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.”

Philip Pullman

24. “No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

Cassandra Clare

25. “Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.”

Suzanne Collins

26. “There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.”

Aesop

27. “One story sounds good until another is told.”

Aesop

28. “The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.”

Thomas Paine

29. “Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”

Donald Trump

30. “Don’t let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that’s happened.”

Anne Rice

31. “Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

Ray Bradbury

32. “Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.”

Ray Bradbury

33. “You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.”

Ray Bradbury

34. “We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.”

Mary Oliver

35. “Your past is a story. How you frame that story will largely impact your Future Self.”

Michael Hyatt

36. “I did not wait to hear the end of my father’s story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity.”

Marcel Proust

37. “I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.”

Hermann Hesse

38. “Every man’s story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.”

Hermann Hesse

39. “The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

Orson Scott Card

40. “If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.”

Orson Scott Card

41. “If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.”

E.M. Forster

42. “Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.”

E.M. Forster

43. “Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.”

E.M. Forster

44. “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

45. “Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry.”

John Keats

46. “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

47. “If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.”

Daniel H. Pink

48. “Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.”

Daniel H. Pink

49. “I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.”

Brene Brown