I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic.” — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives.… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they'll be alright until I get to them.… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted,… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live:… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love. — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. — Jessica Fellowes Copy Share Image
