“How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.” — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“one sign of a well-led life is that you have great stories to tell when it’s over.” — Brad Parks Copy Share Image
There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do. — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
“ You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule. ” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a… — Hark-Joon Lee Copy Share Image
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that… — Joe Montana Copy Share Image
It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do. — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature. — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans. — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
Things That Actually Happen Are Often More Surprising Than Stories That Are Invented... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
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