The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Maybe the next three Star Wars movies will tell the story of how the last three Star Wars movies got so shitty. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I think most superhero stories have already been done a million times. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect,… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I… — John George Haigh Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young… — Jonny Weston Copy Share Image
“Why do bad things happen to good people?' 'Because it makes a good story.” — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. — Sheila Nevins Copy Share Image
What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again! — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image