Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Even if we’ve never met them in person but only heard about them in stories, we are drawn to the wise and… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should."… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if he was not very consciously and deliberately choosing particular chapters of his life to tell, in order… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“My entire life, I've been fascinated with stories. To everyone else, it seemed like the story itself was enough. But I wanted… — Amber Lough Copy Share Image
Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good .… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to… — Tony Grisoni Copy Share Image
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about the business side, but I know it's a very, very expensive decision to make, to put production… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“The world is full of stories, and no matter how much time we spend in it—alive or dead—there’s never time to learn… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
![“I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.” quote by J. California Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/j-california-cooper-38277_brooms_i-was-telling-stories-before-i-could-wri_2320291.png)
![“When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/bill-maher-211_answers_when-those-myths-were-created-when-the-b_2477028.png)
![“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.” quote by Mary Ritter Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a1/mary-ritter-beard-20226_century_the-volumes-which-record-the-history-of_2509477.jpg)
