# Free quote and story video templates > Quote cards, storytime openers, letters, voice memos and film-subtitle frames for words that deserve more than a caption. - Page: https://cutluma.com/templates/category/quotes-stories - 28 templates; each opens in the editor with a free account and exports as MP4. Words carry a lot of short-form video: a storytime that starts with “so this happened”, a letter to your younger self, a daily affirmation, an interview pull-quote, a book highlight, a line of film dialogue as subtitles over your own footage. This category holds those as 9:16 and square templates, with typography chosen for reading on a phone and animations that pace the text rather than decorate it. Newspaper-clipping, corkboard-note and magazine-interview frames give longer quotes an editorial look. The templates keep the design decisions you would otherwise make every time: line length, type size, where the attribution sits, how fast the words appear. Paste your quote, set the name beneath it, pick a background clip or a plain colour and export. For a storytime, the text-story and voice-memo designs let the words appear as you speak, and the “part 1” label makes a series obvious. Everything is a text clip, so a typo is a one-click fix. ## Templates - [Editorial quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/daily-quote) — 9:16, 7 s, Quotes & stories: Magazine-style quote on off-white paper: issue number, hairline rules, a big serif line with the last words in cobalt italic. Change the words daily. - [Story time post](https://cutluma.com/templates/reddit-story) — 9:16, 11 s, Quotes & stories: A forum story card: title, the story line by line, an upvote count rolling up, the top comment — then a “NOT THE VILLAIN” verdict stamp slams in. Made for story-time voiceovers. - [Notes app opinion](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-notes-confession) — 9:16, 10 s, Quotes & stories: An iPhone Notes page at 23:47: “unpopular opinion:” types itself in huge letters, the take appears word by word and the punchline gets a yellow highlighter. Swap in your own hot take. - [Text story](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-imessage-story) — 9:16, 12 s, Quotes & stories: A dark-mode text thread told bubble by bubble — quitting the 9–5, landing a client by accident — with a read receipt, a typing indicator and a “storytime” sticker. Rewrite the bubbles to tell your own story. - [Letter to 25-year-old me](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-letter-to-25) — 9:16, 12 s, Quotes & stories: A typed letter on a forest-green desk: “Dear 25-year-old me,” types out, five numbered lessons tap in letter by letter, one gets circled in red pen and it is signed by you at 35. Rewrite the lessons. - [Film subtitles](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-film-subtitle) — 9:16, 10 s, Quotes & stories: A cinematic letterbox for your clip: film title in the top bar, a slow push-in and three subtitle lines that land like the last scene of an indie film, with a running timecode below. Drop your clip in and rewrite the dialogue. - [Daily affirmation](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-affirmation) — 9:16, 11 s, Quotes & stories: A soft peach-and-lilac aura with a frosted card: today’s affirmation fades in word by word, three dots fill as you repeat it, then a second one follows. Rewrite the two affirmations. - [Voice memo](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-voice-memo) — 9:16, 11 s, Quotes & stories: A 2am voice memo in dark mode: the waveform scrolls past a red playhead, the timer runs and the transcript lights up word by word. Record your own note to self and paste the words in. - [Corkboard note](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-sticky-cork) — 1:1, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A corkboard with a pinned yellow sticky note in blue pen, a taped polaroid for your photo and a to-do card that says “nothing, on purpose”. Change the note and drop in your photo. - [Interview pull-quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-pull-quote) — 1:1, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A cobalt podcast-style quote card: the guest’s round photo inside a spinning episode ring, a giant lime quote mark and the line that made the episode, with the last words highlighted. Swap the quote, guest and episode. - [Newspaper clipping](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-newspaper-clip) — 1:1, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A torn newspaper clipping on tomato red: “Local woman finally posts the video”, a photo spot for you, a deadpan article and a pull quote circled in red marker. Rewrite the headline about your own win. - [Swiss quote poster](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-swiss-poster) — 4:5, 9 s, Quotes & stories: An International-style quote poster: a giant red quote mark, the quote stacked in heavy grotesk on a strict grid, hairline rules and the attribution set in mono. Change the quote and who said it. - [Book highlight](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-book-highlight) — 4:5, 10 s, Quotes & stories: An open novel page on sage linen: three lines get a yellow highlighter swipe, a pencil note appears in the margin and a red ribbon marks the page. Paste in the passage you love and the note you’d write. - [Magazine interview](https://cutluma.com/templates/qt-mag-interview) — 4:5, 10 s, Quotes & stories: A magazine Q&A page: an italic Bodoni masthead, a tall portrait frame for your guest, one question and answer set in two columns and a red pull quote across the bottom. Drop in the portrait and edit the Q&A. - [Sealed letter](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-wax-seal-letter) — 9:16, 11 s, Quotes & stories: A typed open letter on cream paper over a dark desk: “Dear you,” and three short paragraphs tap in letter by letter, it is signed in blue script and a red wax seal slams down with your initial. Rewrite the letter and change the initial. - [Torn paper quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-torn-collage) — 9:16, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A cut-and-paste collage on sand paper: a torn photo taped at the top, then four ripped strips tilt in one by one, each carrying a word in a different typeface — “what if it all works out?”. Change the words and drop in your photo. - [Chapter one](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-chapter-one) — 4:5, 10 s, Quotes & stories: The first page of a novel on linen: “CHAPTER ONE”, an italic chapter title, a giant cherry drop cap and three paragraphs of your own story set in Garamond, with a dog-eared corner. Rewrite the opening about whatever you are finally starting. - [Karaoke affirmation](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-karaoke-affirm) — 9:16, 10 s, Quotes & stories: A cobalt “say it with me” card: the affirmation fills the frame in heavy grotesk and lights up lime word by word like karaoke, with a progress bar and a spinning day counter. Rewrite the words; the highlight paces itself. - [35mm quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-grain-cinema) — 9:16, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A film-grain overlay for your clip: a dark vignette, tiny film-stock labels and a running timecode, with the quote sliding up line by line in a Caslon that looks like a title card from a quiet indie film. Drop your footage under it and rewrite the lines. - [Polaroid story](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-polaroid-story) — 9:16, 12 s, Quotes & stories: Three polaroids drop onto a dark wooden table one after another — day 1, day 30, day 90 — each with a handwritten caption and a taped corner, under a “how it started → how it’s going” sticker. Drop your three photos in and rewrite the captions. - [Neon sign quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-neon-sign) — 9:16, 10 s, Quotes & stories: A single-colour pink neon script on a dark plaster wall: “you are exactly where you need to be” lights up line by line, one word flickers like a real tube and an underline draws itself with light spill on the wall. Rewrite the sign. - [Fortune cookie](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-fortune-cookie) — 9:16, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A fortune cookie on cherry red: the paper slip slides out from behind the cookie with your fortune in blue mono, lucky numbers underneath and a “tag someone who needs this” sticker. Rewrite the fortune and the numbers. - [Poem stanza](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-poem-stanza) — 9:16, 12 s, Quotes & stories: A page of poetry on warm off-white: a ghosted Bodoni “III”, a cherry rule that grows down the margin and five italic Cormorant lines that slide up one by one, the last in red. Paste your own stanza and sign it. - [Storytime part 1](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-storytime-pt1) — 9:16, 8 s, Quotes & stories: A title card for your storytime over your own clip: story bars at the top, a giant STORY TIME in Anton with a cherry block shadow, a spinning lime PART 1 badge, the hook on a white label and a “grab a snack” sticker. Change the hook and part number. - [Museum label](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-museum-label) — 4:5, 10 s, Quotes & stories: A gallery wall: your photo hangs in a black frame under a spotlight and a white museum label explains it — artist, title, “acrylic, caffeine and spite on canvas” — with a DO NOT TOUCH tag. Drop in the photo and rewrite the label. - [Postcard back](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-postcard-back) — 16:9, 10 s, Quotes & stories: The back of a vintage postcard on a kraft desk: a handwritten message on the left, address lines on the right, your photo as the stamp and a postmark that rings it. Rewrite the note and the address, drop a photo on the stamp. - [Fridge poetry](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-fridge-poetry) — 1:1, 9 s, Quotes & stories: Word magnets click onto a brushed-steel fridge one by one — “the best things are still unwritten, so write them.” — next to a photo magnet and a “buy milk” note. Retype the words; each tile resizes to its word. - [Exit sign quote](https://cutluma.com/templates/qs-exit-sign) — 9:16, 9 s, Quotes & stories: A green highway sign under a night sky: EXIT 26 — “NEXT EXIT: The Life You Keep Postponing, ½ mile, keep right” in big white road type with an arrow, on two steel posts. Rewrite the exit for whatever you are finally taking. ## Tips - **Break the quote where the breath is** — Put a line break where the speaker would pause, not where the box fills. The templates reflow text, so you control the rhythm with your own breaks. - **Put the attribution in smaller type, always** — A quote card without a name feels like a slogan. Even for your own words, add your handle underneath in the attribution line the template provides. - **Let the words appear in reading order** — For a storytime, time each sentence to appear as you say it. Drag the text clips on the timeline against your voice track so the reader and listener arrive together. ## FAQ **Are the quote templates free?** Yes. Edit any quote or story template with a free account and export at 1080p with a small watermark; paid plans export clean. **Can I put a quote over my own video?** Yes. Drop your clip onto the background track and keep the text layers; the film-subtitle and pull-quote designs are made for footage underneath. **Can I make a multi-part storytime?** Yes. Set the part number in the template’s label, save the project and duplicate it for each part so the series shares one look. **Do the templates work in Arabic or Spanish?** Yes. Type in any language; there are dedicated right-to-left Arabic and Spanish packs in their own categories as well.