stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness. — Michael M. Honda Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
My own idea about 3D is that it is there to enhance the viewing experience but I don't think that you have… — David Yates Copy Share Image
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a… — Yuji Horii Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.” — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice. — Shami Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about… — Peter Segal Copy Share Image
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them. — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel Copy Share Image
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those. — David Spade Copy Share Image
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
