The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining. — Chad Lowe Copy Share Image
Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product.… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful. — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock"… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image