“Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor. — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
“Oh, you’ve made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the… — David Kuo Copy Share Image
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that… — Harry Melling Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Until you understand your Core Story, whatever it is, and how it made you who you are today, your foundation will reflect… — Lucinda Bassett Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many… — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away. — James Hilton Copy Share Image
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way. — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
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