'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess. — James Bobin Copy Share Image
The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story. — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I have to find the story relatable or at least interesting to be a part of it. Then there are times when… — Mohan Joshi Copy Share Image
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To you people out there, you producers and you network owners and you agents and you creative sparks, please give transgender talent… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes… — Judith Kohnen Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Make me a story.” “Hunter, I don’t have a stitch of clothes on,” she squeaked. One of his dark eyebrows flicked upward.… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
“Stories are factual...If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change…In America it is the… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it's not a good story. That… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I don't even mind playing a bimbo or a silly girl, as long as it isn't stereotyped and there's a reason for… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
Like all other branches of the Indian film industry, even in Pollywood now it's no more about the actor; it's about the… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care." — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
It is just satisfying to think that, somehow, my music and my story could touch someone and make them want to make… — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
You know my name, not my story! You know what I have done, not what I have been through! — Nasir Ali Copy Share Image
“I believed that if I had the whole story, if I had the opportunity to really know the person I was sitting… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“She could not tell if it was safer to stop a love story before it ever truly got under way.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Venus's life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow. — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Just because your life story has a horrible beginning it doesn't mean that it can't have a happy ending. — Anonymous Copy Share Image