Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me. — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent! — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama — Vinnie Paz Copy Share Image
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell… — Kevin Conroy Copy Share Image
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
![“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/roberto-bola-o-725_real-story_a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and_1582042.jpg)
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