People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I like works about familiar stories, where one spins the point of view and looks at it from another angle. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls. — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular"… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know. — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories. — Craig Horner Copy Share Image
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
