The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I… — Judith Moore Copy Share Image
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this… — Soko Copy Share Image
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about… — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away. — James Hilton Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain,… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
