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
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
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
I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw 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
“There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.” — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein 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
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward one inevitable conclusion” — E.J. Patten 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 usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about… — Norman Maclean 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
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We… — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
