A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way. — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Okay so I have read the mail. The stories people often tell. About us that we never knew but their existence will… — The Avett Brothers Copy Share Image
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
If he wants to tell you, he'll tell you. End of story, Rose. Besides, you certainly keep your share of secrets too.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they'll be alright until I get to them.… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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