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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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
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
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
— Michael Winter
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
— James Taylor
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
— J.A. Konrath
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
— Yann Martel
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
— Nicholas Sparks
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
— Charles Kuralt
There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.
— Nicky Gumbel
It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.
— Laura Hillenbrand
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories.
— Rabih Alameddine
When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.
— Brene Brown
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
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
— F. Sionil Jose
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
— Haruki Murakami
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
— Adrian McKinty
The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
— Cameron Russell
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
— George Lucas
A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
— Alan Bradley
In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
— Conn Iggulden
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
— David Corbett
People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and ... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.
— Alan Moore
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
— Anne-Marie Duff
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
— Theodore Sturgeon
I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.
— Kathy Griffin
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there's no hope.
— Robert Pattinson
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
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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
— David Sedaris
There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.
— Gerald Vizenor
Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
— Ray Bradbury
The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How
— Anthony Trollope
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
— Lauren Willig
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
— Michael Franti
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
— Jessica Szohr
Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
— Kate Grenville
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
— Charlie Rose
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
— Gabriel Iglesias
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
— Isabel Allende
I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.
— Keri Russell
There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.
— Susan Fletcher
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
— Mia Wasikowska
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.
— Simon Beckett
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.
— Irena A. Hoffman
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.
— Scarlett Thomas
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.
— Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.
— Jane Davenport Platko
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.
— Taylor Swift
You all have stories, Sandy said. And we have secrets
— Charles D'Ambrosio
All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.
— Paula McLain
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
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
— Neil Gaiman
When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.
— Philip Ridley
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
— Frank Delaney
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
— Walter Isaacson
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
— Katherine Applegate
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
— Bill Frakes
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
— Joel Edgerton
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.
— Robert Barron
