This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible. — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. — William Landay Copy Share Image
Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. — Christopher Atkins Copy Share Image
Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film. — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I… — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. — David Grann Copy Share Image
The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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