Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it? — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green Copy Share Image
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell. — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch. — Jessica Szohr Copy Share Image
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us,… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“How to read this book: Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
A friend is someone you tell your stories to. A best friend was in all those stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then. — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
