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My story begins with a question.
— Alexandra Bogdanovic
What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Shall I tell you a bedtime story?
— Steven King
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
— Matt Drudge
When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
— Christopher Meloni
To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.
— Laura Allen
A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.
— Suzanne Selfors
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
— Neil Gaiman
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
— David E. Kelley
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
— Lorrie Moore
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
— Walter Kirn
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
— Chuck Wendig
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
— John Patrick Shanley
You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.
— Lawrence Wright
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
— Wendell Berry
IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance,
— Greg Grandin
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
— David Byrne
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
— Lance Armstrong
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me.
— Nanci Griffith
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
— Walter Cronkite
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
— Mark Haddon
Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
This one moment, when you know you're not a sad story. You're alive.
— Stephen Chbosky
writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it.
— Elizabeth J. Church
But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.
— Louise Penny
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
— Chris Hegedus
The best way to teach people is by telling a story
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.
— Conan O'Brien
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
— Douglas Coupland
We are what we read. It's probably better that way.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
You've built up this idea about me, this ideal, but I'm not that person. I'm not perfect. I am far from perfect. I'm not worth such a beautiful story.
— Stephanie Perkins
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
— Howard Gordon
We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together.
— Raj Singh
I didn't bother tellin her no made-up story, because she always sees through em and has since I was knee-high to a collie.
— Stephen King
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
— James McAvoy
There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.
— Nnedi Okorafor
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
What I like best is a good story with a moral.
— Oscar Micheaux
A man with a good story is practically a king.
— Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
— A.D. Posey
Give them a reason to care, a story they can believe in.
— Bernadette Jiwa
I think it's time for you to drop back into my life, ruin it, then disappear again: a love story. The
— Melissa Broder
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.
— John Darnielle
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
— Scarlett Thomas
But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
— Rob Walton
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.
— Richard Flanagan
The story you are holding was first published in 1969, which was, as you may know, a very interesting year.
— Mario Puzo
I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
— Kangana Ranaut
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
— Christopher Nolan
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
— Horace Mann
This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
— Katherine Mansfield
Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'
— Terry Zwigoff
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
— Peter Gabriel
Every painting tells a story.
— A.D. Posey
It's only a story, isn't it?" ... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story? — David Eddings
I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them.
— Kathryn Albright
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
— William Throsby Bridges
Their story isn't a fairytale, but that's okay, because fairytales are predictible, and sometimes boring.
— Lindy Zart
I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.
— Bruno Zheng Wu
Everybody is a story.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
— Michelle Williams
Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
— John Darnielle
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
— George Lucas
Every time you suffer a negative blow in life, simply turn it into a character for a story, make it pay, and kill it off!!
— A.M. Sawyer
The situation was saved; Brisbane was going to tell a story.
— Francis Marion Crawford
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
— Javier Marias
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
— Martin Freeman
If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story
— Jonathan Gottschall
I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.
— Euzhan Palcy
