There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The robot is not going to want to be switched off because you've given it a goal to achieve and being switched… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear,… — Gene Watson Copy Share Image
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never… — Nicole Blackman Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.” — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me. — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.” — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
