I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
“But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their… — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Copy Share Image
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I remember a class I taught at Ohio State where I assigned a Mary Gaitskill story, which really wasn't that bad, and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the purpose of life is not this life. It is to equip us, whatever our role is going… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me. — Additi Gupta Copy Share Image
Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the… — David Morse Copy Share Image
The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat. — Too $hort Copy Share Image
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one. — Jude Law Copy Share Image
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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