As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told. — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit. — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life.… — Deepika Padukone Copy Share Image
The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them. — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.' — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
