The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins… — Joe Copy Share Image
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents,… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story. — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
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