I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories. — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the… — Graham King Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life,… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
