Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I'm gonna tell you some stories, and some of them might be true." Jack Bates” — John Bates 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
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
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up… — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story. — Tara Dakides Copy Share Image
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be… — John Dillinger Copy Share Image
There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story.… — Mark Strickson Copy Share Image
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
“I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material - I mean, so many books and so much stuff about what… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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