When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I like youth, and I like stories about feeling things intensely and about transitional moments in human life. I reflect on my… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around. — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue. — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to… — Crystal Chappell Copy Share Image
“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories.… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would… — Cameron Mathison Copy Share Image