If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.” — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to… — Michael Sam Copy Share Image
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories -… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and… — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
President Bush announced a major new plan for the United States to put a man on the moon, which would be a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling… — Deborah Raney Copy Share Image
I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.” — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image