Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the… — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail… — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my… — Hasan M. Elahi Copy Share Image
Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama.… — Lilly Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to… — Tara Fela-Durotoye Copy Share Image
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
