Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with… — Deepika Padukone Copy Share Image
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror… — David Naughton Copy Share Image
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story. — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it… — Nas Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.” — Shannon Donnelly Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences,… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
President Obama awarded a National Medal of Arts to author Stephen King. You know, because if there's anyone who can relate to… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image