“Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Her stories were going to randomly come out. He had to be man enough to listen to them. It was part of… — Elaine Levine Copy Share Image
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
“People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
