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The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it. — Cary Fukunaga

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment. — Steve Toltz

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too. — Sarah Dessen

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose. — Jay Perry

A clear mind can appreciate the beauty of poetry and the wisdom imparted in a story; — Anonymous

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? — Beth Moore

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence. — Chuck Palahniuk

The whispers of a story is the beginning of every writer's journey. — Jen Golembiewski

The infant was standing on a spot in someone else's story, during a moment of her own. — Lemony Snicket

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. — Gore Verbinski

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. — Patton Oswalt

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. — Alice Lowe

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block. — Dan Alatorre

It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end. — Khadija Rupa

The ending of a story tells us what it means. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ... and the rest of the story will write itself. — Jason W. Blair

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver

Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story. — Kristin Hunter

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories? — J.M. Coetzee

Theirs is a story of woe and warning. Take heed and listen well . . . . — Kresley Cole

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another. — Isaac Marion

Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction. — Ben Mezrich

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story. — Jim Butcher

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. — Tori Amos

It was Ruby's favorite kind of story: where the boys lost and the girls won and got a souvenir in the bargain. — Nova Ren Suma

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes. — Paul De Kruif

If you want a woman, you have to take her accessories, end of story. — Beverley Andi

A failed short story is a few weeks of fruitless work; a failed novel is a dead child. — The New York Writers Workshop

Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together. — Herbert Mason

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring. — John Buchan

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus. — Bill Hicks

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. — Ned Vizzini

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently. — Ai Weiwei

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. — Douglas Pagels

Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. — Alice Sebold

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child. — Katherine Anne Porter

It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives. — Stephen King

My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth. — Robert A. Heinlein

A fantasy story is a vacation to another world for the price of a sandwich. — A.E. Marling

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. — O. Henry

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr

So the moral of the story is that the primary ingredient for a successful nation is guns. — Cory O'Brien

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument. — Chauncey Depew

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. — Leigh Allison Wilson

Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. — Stephenie Meyer

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose. — Melissa D'Arabian

Once upon
a dream
in a blanket
of night sky
you asked me
to tell you a story
which began with
us holding hands. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. — Napoleon Hill

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. — Stephen King

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story — Lee Trevino

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas. — Volker Bertelmann

WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here. — Monique Truong

It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions. — Mick Karabegovic

The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment — Natalia Jaster

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. — Cathy Guisewite

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war. — John Eldredge

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires. — Carolyn See

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story. — Elizabeth Banks

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar

This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon. — Jodi Picoult

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man. — George R R Martin

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. — Carlos Fuentes

I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water. — Tanya Moir

I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon. — Steven Wright

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser

We're going to spend the rest of our lives together in my head: a love story — Melissa Broder

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news. — Susan Mallery

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. — Tom DeLonge

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. — John Darnielle

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

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light — John Lennox

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I — Gail Collins

As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love. — Nina LaCour

To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while. — Django Wexler

Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony. — Farshad Asl

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

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. — George R R Martin

You said this was only the beginning,
I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story. — Tanzy Sayadi

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever. — Dixie Waters

I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good. — Daniel Jacobs

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. — Oscar Levant

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. — Jorge Luis Borges

Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined. — Tyrean Martinson

If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change — Tara Fela-Durotoye

The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen. — A.D. Posey

Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death. — Paul Doiron

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. — Patrick Rothfuss

We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told. And — Terry Pratchett