Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story. — Tristan Murail Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing… — Jackson Harris Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me. — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
“The facts of things do not store well. They rot and fall apart. But the stories we tell last and even grow.” — Ananda Braxton-Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
