Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories. — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
“Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.” — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are. — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him. — John Green Copy Share Image
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something. — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
