Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.' — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the… — Don Panoz Copy Share Image
I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story. — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. — John Green Copy Share Image
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends. — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.” — Kate Messner Copy Share Image
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
![“I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.” quote by Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/10c/agnes-varda-3815_incredibles_i-call-ordinary-people-real-people-becau_2423337.jpg)
![“I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.” quote by Ed Helms](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/232/ed-helms-4996_bills_i-told-personal-stories-the-way-bill-cos_2099119.png)
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