Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly.… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club… — Joe Kinnear Copy Share Image
You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears,… — Sandra Worth Copy Share Image
In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story,… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
![“While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal]…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/george-friedman-7436_army_while-certain-coastal-cities-have-become_1268579.png)
![“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.” quote by Lucrecia Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/lucrecia-martel-47278_communication_my-love-of-storytelling-comes-from-oral_2757192.jpg)
![“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.” quote by Brian Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/brian-wicker-224654_fairy_we-may-say-that-the-characters-in-fairyt_2713569.jpg)
![“Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].” quote by Brian Evenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5a/brian-evenson-21180_air_ideas-for-stories-come-in-really-differe_1550442.jpg)
