“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
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. — Eddie Izzard 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
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
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Doing action, the thing is it's cool to watch it, and as a guy I like seeing it. With the romance thing… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival. — Wendy Raquel Robinson Copy Share Image
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors. — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions — Michael Morpurgo 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'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
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 certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. — Clive Barker 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
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
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
I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly. — J.H. Wyman 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
