Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King 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
“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
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
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love. — Ilyasah Shabazz Copy Share Image
If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in… — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories. — Michael A. Healy 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
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
It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
![“[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.” quote by Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0d5/dorothy-parker-700_apples_on-being-told-party-guests-were-ducking_2407051.jpg)
![“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” quote by David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/73f/david-sedaris-333_fit_a-good-short-story-would-take-me-out-of_1235635.png)
![“I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish…” quote by Andre Holland](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a0f/andre-holland-10514_alex_i-look-at-it-moonlight-and-young-alex-hi_1847085.jpg)
![“[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. “Ella found a dog,” she announced. “A large dog. And a Cyclops.” Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black…” quote by Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f7/rick-riordan-27_baby_tyson-looked-him-over-with-that-massive_447112.jpg)
