Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about...… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place. — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me. — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot,… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
