Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care." — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million.… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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