Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs… — Jim Bankoff Copy Share Image
Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it. — Angie Sage Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got… — James Denton Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
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Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
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If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then. — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
![“Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good story that excites us both, and we have the story written. And we've had it for a year and a half, two years. So we've been ready.” quote by Roland Emmerich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c5/roland-emmerich-16132_dean_dean-devlin-emmerich-s-partner-on-indepe_479179.jpg)
