My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories. — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs. — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something. — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life". — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story. — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image