“one sign of a well-led life is that you have great stories to tell when it’s over.” — Brad Parks Copy Share Image
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.” — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do. — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
“ You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule. ” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept,… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell. — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
