“Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“ You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule. ” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
“Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story;… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give… — David Antin Copy Share Image
There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story. — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story... — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a… — Martina Cole Copy Share Image
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to… — Wynonna Judd Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
![“Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest…” quote by J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/553/j-r-r-tolkien-204_courage_sam-i-wonder-if-we-ll-ever-be-put-into-s_3115230.jpg)
