I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep. — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling. — Jairek Robbins Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other. — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold. — Mark Polish Copy Share Image
“The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.” — Vishwas Mudagal Copy Share Image
Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears,… — Sandra Worth Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people. — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.' — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
![“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.” quote by Brian Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3b7/brian-wicker-224654_fairy_we-may-say-that-the-characters-in-fairyt_2713569.jpg)
![“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.” quote by Lucrecia Martel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/771/lucrecia-martel-47278_communication_my-love-of-storytelling-comes-from-oral_2757192.jpg)
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