The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember?… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the… — Graham King Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
Just the same as I mix each track to connect them together to build a story, it's the same with the message,… — Robert Hood Copy Share Image
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer… — Tim Fish Copy Share Image
I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and… — Cat Winters Copy Share Image
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to… — Larry King Copy Share Image
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories… — Anonymous Copy Share Image