That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy.… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement,… — Jaime Hernandez Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I dont have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. Its all about trying to bring… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing." She shook her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people. — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting. — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope. — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.' — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes. — Grace Ogot Copy Share Image
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image