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All you really have in the end are your stories. — Burt Reynolds

There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums. — David Mitchell

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters. — Eric Balfour

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die. — Mark Rubinstein

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. — James Taylor

We are narrative creatures, and stories render the world apprehensible. Narrative tells us about the world we live in and our place within it. — Joseph Laycock

All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Dan Yaccarino

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. — Marian Keyes

There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention. — Daniel Goncalves

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. — John Patrick Shanley

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My — Ruskin Bond

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. — P.L. Travers

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. — Robert Gottlieb

The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims. — Deyth Banger

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. — Nicole Krauss

We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh? — Stephen Moffat

You can't regret a whole period in your life ... It's part of who you are, one of your stories. — Laura Fraser

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth — Saadat Hasan Manto

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. — Harold Clarke Goddard

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life. — Beyonce Knowles

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity. — Alex Karpovsky

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stories are not always innocent; ... they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you. — Chinua Achebe

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life. — Hugh Bonneville

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell. — Kate Atkinson

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message. — Karen Thompson Walker

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. — Tom Johnson

Mundane, boring stories
not interesting ones
are the ideal in an operating room. — Wolf Pascoe

I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other. — Graham Joyce

Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation! — Waseem Kanjo

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way. — Famke Janssen

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. — Thomas R. Insel

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made. — Richard Handler

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle. — Hideo Kojima

In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are the one writing. — Jacob Mandel

It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond. — Stephen R. Lawhead

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. — Lasse Hallstrom

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. — David Strathairn

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. — Michael Connelly

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. — Sheila Nevins

If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to
and learn from each other's stories — Queen Noor Of Jordan

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel. — Ben Lerner

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free. — Robert G. Picard

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose. — Randy Alcorn

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. — Salman Rushdie

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. — David Morse

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking. — Gerald Vizenor

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible. — Stephen Apkon

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never ... occupy a place in contemporary literature. — Italo Calvino

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories. — Sloane Crosley

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. — Sergio Aragones

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain — Harry Styles

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive. — Daisy Whitney

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones. — Chauncey Depew

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.' — Ellen Datlow

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri

There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one that jumps out in my mind. — Cullen Bunn

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. — Jonathan Gottschall

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. — Kate DiCamillo

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. — Diane Setterfield

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors. — Dennis Vickers

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone. — Simon Beckett

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie De France

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard

In a way, our stories have the same beginning and ending -- we all are born, and we all die. What happens in the middle sets us apart. — Shon Mehta

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. — Neil Gaiman

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way. — Arthur Bradford

The young are irritated by stories of the past; they wish to live only in the present, just as I did when I was their age. I — Lucinda Riley

We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. — Stephen King

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic. — Amit Kalantri

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon. — Steve Maraboli

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this. — Nick Antosca

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. — Jaco Van Dormael

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me. — Charlotte Smith

All stories are, in some form, prayers. — Brian Doyle

"Money to Burn" is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors. — Ladyhawke

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence. — Malcolm D. Lee

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories. — Sean Taylor

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there. — Sara Sheridan

We are drawn to stories," he says in a soft voice, "and every scar carries one. — Marie Lu

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set. — William Monahan

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be. — Juliet Stevenson

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished. — Marina Warner