Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James Copy Share Image
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
The movies aren't going anywhere, because telling stories is how people communicate. — Ti West Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
I needed to share my stories with people on how I've gotten through the toughest times in life. — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
“Why are you always filming people?” “I’m busy documenting a thousand stories about Johannesburg.” “Oral histories?” “No, stories. People don’t always speak… — Harry Kalmer Copy Share Image
You don't hear many stories about people who grow up, have normal lives, pay taxes and pay bills, have mortgages and have… — Finn Cole Copy Share Image
“We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting… — Tasha Smith Copy Share Image
“It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
The more people I meet, the more cultures I start to embrace, the more people I open myself up to - it's… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“… I went back to the stories people wrote about Him. It was mostly crazy stories written by people who called themselves… — Elizabeth Tebby Germaine Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
“Romance was different in her world. In our world. She believed it lived all around us. In the trees, the blue sky… — Marilyn Grey Copy Share Image
There's something exhilarating about telling stories that haven't been shared before and haven't been told publicly before. The last thing I want… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
When you're looking for stories or movies usually the great stories are about people in their 30s or 40s because they've lived… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
“I tell my seven-year-old son about his remarkable forefathers. I leave out the bloody details. (For him these people are like knights,… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“But things like the world-inside-this-one are too big to hold in your head by yourself. You need someone to remind you, or… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Aside from wanting to write cracking good books that turn children into lifelong readers, I really want to create stories that enable… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
