“The stories made me somehow feel better and made me feel that my own life wasn’t out of control.” — Anni Taylor Copy Share Image
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring. — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.” — Matthew Jarpe Copy Share Image
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story. — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely… — Yann Martel 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
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
