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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

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. — Mae West

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

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. — Amy Hempel

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

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan

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

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself. — Michael Meade

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

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. — John Hawkes

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

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

Every story is a scorcher and has the ultimate alpha-male character. - AngelinaT — Scarlett Avery

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

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. — Daniel Taylor

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling. — Chris Hegedus

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. — Eric Bana

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

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. — Marion Cotillard

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

'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

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

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it. — Sarah Koenig

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash

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

If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward. — Ben Tolosa

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

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 have a story to tell to anyone who is willing to listen. — Samy Dib

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

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story. — Kurt Loder

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

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. — Viggo Mortensen

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. — Lisa Mangum

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

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other. — Malala Yousafzai

For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay. — Nikki Rowe

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone

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

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told. — Anastasia Hollings