Michael Korda Quotes

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

Everyone has a story.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

There's nothing better than a personal story.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

The best stories come from real life.

The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact, of stories that are important.

I love telling people's stories.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

Everyone goes through things; everyone has a story. That's why strangers are so interesting. I don't find a single human being boring, man.