The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
“Isabel never tired of Esperanza’s stories about her previous life. Esperanza” — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories. — Jussie Smollett Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me. — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories. — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious… — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories… — Sarah Copy Share Image
Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man,… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
“We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image