We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal.… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very… — Marjorie Pay Hinckley Copy Share Image
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden… — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
It looked like it might not work out with Michael Keaton, so they asked Joel Schumacher, 'Who do you want for Batman?'… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
“The more bleach in the bedsheets, the greater Chastity's impulse to roll around in them. A party would be thrown, she decided,… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
![“[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In…” quote by Geraldine McCaughrean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f31/geraldine-mccaughrean-19228_broken_peter-pan-has-never-broken-his-terrible_73491.jpg)
