A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant. — Seth Copy Share Image
“Stories aren't always told on paper, sometimes they are imprinted on the skin...forever..” — Zoey Sweete Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“read stories of restless people who always end up alone and hate being alone because it’s always themselves they can’t stand being… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“It did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy – the guys in the Space Fleet always had… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I… — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film. — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story. — Til Schweiger Copy Share Image
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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