“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown… — George Mackay Brown Copy Share Image
Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be… — Haley Lu Richardson Copy Share Image
A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic.” — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story;… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories...… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
