Everyone had stories they told themselves to get through…

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days…

— Karen Marie Moning

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

— John Lennon

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

— Erin Morgenstern

“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with…

— Ann Beattie

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency…

— George Lucas

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than…

— Wendell Berry

“Think of all the different ways that stories get told. I’m working with the James Brown people on a movie that will end up…

— Ahmir Questlove Thompson

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to…

— Shonda Rhimes

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

— Jitendra Kumar

“When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can…

— Ari Berk

“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told…

— Daoud Hari