“New worlds are important, but you can’t just describe them. Give us the stories that make up that universe. No matter how… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“Stories can make us remember—or forget—who we are. They have the power to topple governments or build empires. They are the life… — Laura Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That, is the miracle of the stories. They make us realize that we are not alone in our folly and our loneliness,… — Gurnam Singh Sodhi Copy Share Image
The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
The stories that I tell - a guy stealing milk - aren't exactly stories that make mobs of people rush to theaters. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a… — Tobias S. Buckell Copy Share Image
“It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“That's something that would really sell. I mean, I admire that you tell stories of make-believe people in worlds that don't exist… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character,… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front… — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think artists sometimes go back to something when we never should, for many different reasons. You hear a lot of stories… — Gza Copy Share Image
Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people tell stories, Ed?’ he said. He waited for me to speak, but I didn’t. He sniffed and… — Adrian J. Walker Copy Share Image
All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image