I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. — Elle Varner Copy Share Image
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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
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
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
“It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.” — Robert Michael Pyle Copy Share Image
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later… — Alexandra Byrne Copy Share Image
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel,… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write.… — Julie Andrews 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
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