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Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. — Christopher Locke

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise. — John Sweeney

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama. — Andrew Scott

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. — Neil Gaiman

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it? — Robin Epstein

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist. — Elizabeth Olsen

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen. — Avi Lewis

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder. — Sylvester Stallone

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become. — Jacqueline Lewis

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt. — Anna Deavere Smith

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. — Antonia Thomas

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine. — Bebe Moore Campbell

[When asked about Writing Conferences]
You meet people that will change your life. — Susan Wingate

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited. — Fisher Stevens

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. — David S.Goyer

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities. — Leni Zumas

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. — G. Willow Wilson

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. — Brandi Carlile

It's sometimes surprising how people can open up when you demonstrate a willingness to listen to their stories with attentiveness and respect. — Kevin Fedarko

What's my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems — Muhammad Ali

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This — Jess Walter

Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels... — Deyth Banger

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do. — Frank Spotnitz

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson

Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy. — Jeff VanderMeer

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long. — Joan Severance

I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out. — Dakota Johnson

there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My — Caleb Carr

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. — Simon Van Booy

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest. — Kelly Rowland

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories. — Brandon Stanton

It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story. — Brittney Griner

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives ... and hopefully make a living doing it. — Jordin Sparks

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not? — Susan Fletcher

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater. — Craig Bierko

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. — Halsey

Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it's a story that's completely fabricated. — Paula Stokes

It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ... — John Geddes

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives. — Dave Morin

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. — David Ogden Stiers

It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better. — Sebastien De Castell

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me. — LeAnn Rimes

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change. — LeCrae

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place. — J.K. Rowling

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it. — Sandra Cisneros

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same. — Eugene Richards

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark. — Jessica Khoury

When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations. — A. Saleh

With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before. — Lee Daniels

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own. — Alethea Kontis

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could. — Mona Simpson

People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. — Luke Evans

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people. — Kelly McCreary

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking. — Aurora Guerrero

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them. — Sandra Cisneros

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy. — Jim Cummings

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them. — Michael Robotham

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell. — Janusz Kaminski

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 annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. — Robert Breault

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire

Love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton

The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them. — Neil Gaiman

None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. — Margaret Atwood

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us. — Ann Coulter

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting. — Jason Katims

People who live great stories know failure isn't a judgment, it's an education. — Donald Miller

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. — Clive Barker

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you. — Emma Donoghue

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book! — Andy Andrews

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. — Randy Alcorn

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket. — Michael A. Stackpole

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation — Mikhail Lermontov

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people — Alasdair Gray

The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful. — Brandon Stanton

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories. — Frank Spotnitz

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. — Tori Amos

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. — William J. Clinton

Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool." — Russell Crowe

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. — Fisher Stevens

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories. — Nina Blackwood

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and ... well, sometimes they can't talk about them. — Alan Moore