I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. — John Green Copy Share Image
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's… — Jaime Hernandez Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that… — Denis Halliday Copy Share Image
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Some stories don’t make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers… sure. But there’s some feelings you can’t put on a screen.” — Damon Suede Copy Share Image
“Stories, news, past heartbreak, future happiness, all of these were to be shared by the person at the center of the tale.” — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. — James Franco Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
“ Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image