Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out? — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes,… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
