The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.” — Edward Bloor Copy Share Image
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front… — Mike Gorman Copy Share Image
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a… — James Vance Copy Share Image
This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he… — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.” — Alexis M. Smith Copy Share Image