Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. — James Gray Copy Share Image
Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world. — Sharad Devarajan Copy Share Image
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years?… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to… — Jane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
“People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they? — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The things you people can do now!” Unlikely Worlds said. “The stories you make!” — Paul McAuley Copy Share Image
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's still a mystery but people think that Seungri has a lot of stories, is interesting and special. — Seungri Copy Share Image
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
