[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive… — Tom Verducci Copy Share Image
Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to… — Jane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know… — C.C. Chapman Copy Share Image
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving… — Mark Bernstein Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail. In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.… — Common Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
“I loved those eyes , even though they never saw my pain , I loved those ears , even though they heard my stories” — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
President Bush announced a major new plan for the United States to put a man on the moon, which would be a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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![“I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” quote by Marco Polo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa5/marco-polo-31767_command_i-speak-and-speak-but-the-listener-retai_663831.jpg)
![“I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.” quote by Dylan O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea0/dylan-o-brien-7142_comfortable_i-felt-really-comfortable-on-the-maze-ru_667065.jpg)
![“At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover…” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aea/rem-koolhaas-5371_abandoned_at-that-time-90th-in-lagos-if-you-drove_669157.jpg)
![“For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d16/edward-norton-2203_critique_for-keeping-the-faith-i-looked-at-george_670018.jpg)
