You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.” — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much… — Vivian Mercer Copy Share Image
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image