I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me. — Pauletta Pearson Washington Copy Share Image
“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.” — E.J. Patten Copy Share Image
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. — Elle Varner Copy Share Image
“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and… — Caroline Sunshine Copy Share Image
I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
