Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly.… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears,… — Sandra Worth Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story,… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
I don't really have a place where people can reach me via email because it got a little overwhelming. People tweet things… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
![“The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make…” quote by Karen Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/424/karen-abbott-13658_articles_the-cousin-said-that-gypsy-rose-lee-took_512540.png)
![“[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/14d/dorothy-l-sayers-738_behinds_n-othing-about-a-book-is-so-unmistakable_1468808.jpg)
![“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.” quote by Lucrecia Martel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/771/lucrecia-martel-47278_communication_my-love-of-storytelling-comes-from-oral_2757192.jpg)
![“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.” quote by Brian Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3b7/brian-wicker-224654_fairy_we-may-say-that-the-characters-in-fairyt_2713569.jpg)
![“Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].” quote by Brian Evenson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e5a/brian-evenson-21180_air_ideas-for-stories-come-in-really-differe_1550442.jpg)
![“Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell.” quote by Ed Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/284/ed-gordon-28315_black_certainly-there-is-a-depression-i-think_3018744.jpg)
