“I'm gonna tell you some stories, and some of them might be true." Jack Bates” — John Bates Copy Share Image
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something? — Marguerite Moreau Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.” — Patti Callahan Copy Share Image
Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story. — Jacob Gates Copy Share Image
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people. — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do,… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together.… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image