I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories. — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. — Tatyana Ali Copy Share Image
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down -… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it. — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
