Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Adventuresome stories to life for kids big and small who dare to dream.” — Jack Makhlouf Copy Share Image
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you. — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
My best clients tell stories that inspire. They tell stories about situations that you can identify with. — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet. — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It's not ok to make up stories about someone's life and you haven't even spoken with them. — Shaunie O'Neal Copy Share Image
“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
As a mom, I also know that many of the stories that I cover may impact our son's life in some form… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person. — Rayvon Owen Copy Share Image
“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.” — Shannon Donnelly Copy Share Image
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image