And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life… — David Spade Copy Share Image
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
If I had a script that I was ready to shoot tomorrow, I'd work on it every day until we got into… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always… — Herman Hupfeld Copy Share Image
I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed. — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell. — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. — Jessica Fellowes Copy Share Image
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough . — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
