The literary story is a story that deals with the…

“Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness…

— Piers Anthony

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

— Viola Davis

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe…

— Tilda Swinton

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't…

— Alan Watts

“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.”

— Jon Ronson

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality.…

— Jesmyn Ward

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating…

— Pema Chodron

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

— George Balanchine

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

— Maximilian Schell

“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a…

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

— Adrian Rogers