I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward one inevitable conclusion” — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can… — Rachel DeWoskin Copy Share Image
I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like… — Patrick Grant Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really… — Harrison Smith Copy Share Image
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire. — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
“There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.” — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved… — David Finch Copy Share Image
If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“ Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I believe there are some stories that need to be told and 'Sarbjit' is definitely one of them. — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good… — Alex Gansa Copy Share Image
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story. — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
