I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. — Judith Moore Copy Share Image
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of… — Kat Zhang Copy Share Image
I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“My pillowcases were totally full and the boots hanging around my neck added to the weight I was carrying, but I was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
