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Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships - the experiences of your emerging new self! — Bryant McGill

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. — Mark Twain

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous. — Mark Sheppard

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished. — Hideaki Anno

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. — Henry Louis Gates

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more. — AJ Michalka

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful. — Amanda Donohoe

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me. — Adam Sandler

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. — Ice Cube

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that. — Carrie Coon

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people. — Jon M. Chu

It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation. — Marilyn R. Wilson

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

Sherlock and Watson are a love story — Martin Freeman

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. — Samuel Johnson

Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in its place. — Brownell Landrum

But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories. — Bernie Mcgill

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories. — Niall Williams

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas

All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story. — Laura Fraser

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

Do you ever wonder if the person next to you is human? No, because we accept it as just so. In my stories, you must accept another possibility. — Nancy Glynn

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. — Lindsey Kelk

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time. — Edge

The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61 — Tom Wolfe

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite. — David Sedaris

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. — Deirdre O'Kane

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form. — Rebecca Makkai

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.' — Noel Clarke

That's just a story."
"So are we
we're stories too," Russ says. — Matthew Quick

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work. — Geraldine Brooks

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different — Rohinton Mistry

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst

Never compromise your character's personality just to make a scene more exciting. Stories flow through your character, so never forget who they are. — Giuseppe Bianco

The Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. — Craig L. Rice

Everybody is a story. — Rachel Naomi Remen

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow. — Craig Groeschel

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep. — Russ Harris

Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change. — Ari Berk

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

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story. — Andrew Stanton

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. — Amy Purdy

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. — Philip Pullman

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with. — Stanley Crouch

Stories always seem to get better with age. — Kevin Connolly

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

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. — Steve Inskeep

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventures make great stories, but the day after really sucks. — Bryan Fields

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations. — Tony DiTerlizzi

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. — Christopher Nolan

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books. — Michael Sheen

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants. — Jon Krakauer

So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish. — Lemony Snicket

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element. — Harrison Ford

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. — Mark Dever

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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