I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die. — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came… — John Wells Copy Share Image
If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story,… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling,… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity.… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds. — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics. — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes… — Heidi W. Durrow Copy Share Image
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before. — Jeremy Gutsche Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
