“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 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
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
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring. — Casey Kasem 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
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.” — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But for the last couple of weeks I’ve had this bizarre sensation that something is watching me. (Simone) You mean someONE, right?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“everything in our culture tells men and boys to avoid any interest, activity or community dominated by women - and when article… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr.… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that… — Amina Mama 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
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
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
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.” — Matthew Jarpe 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
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
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
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
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. — Kathie Lee Gifford 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
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
