No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.” — Robert Michael Pyle Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Great stories are not the ones which have great people in them. Great stories are the ones which have ordinary people, willing… — Priyanka singh Copy Share Image
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.” — K.M. Randall Copy Share Image
When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where… — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“There's a million stories glistening in her eyes if you just have time to look.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door. — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
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