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Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
— Johnny Rich
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
— Marion Cotillard
We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.
— Todd Lieberman
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
— Gregory Maguire
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
Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up.
— Neil Gaiman
I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
— Nicholas Sparks
If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
— Zadie Smith
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
— Ed Greenwood
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
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
— Nicholas Sparks
There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.
— Varric Tethras
Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.
— James Ponsoldt
The camera is an extension of yourself ... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
— Cornell Capa
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.
— Katherine Center
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
— Nicole Krauss
Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
— Oren Lyons
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
— Ken Liu
There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings.
— Shirley Marr
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
— James Dyson
I started writing stories as a child.
— Danielle Steel
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
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
— Philip Roth
As long as we have our stories there is hope.
— Henri Nouwen
No one sees themself as the villain in their story.
— Graham Yost
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
— Paul Auster
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
— Abby Sunderland
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
— Dorothy Parker
The question to ask is: do we view Scripture as stories to imaginatively live into or do we view Scripture as prescriptions for how to live?
— Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
— Michael Cera
As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.
— Daniel Radcliffe
long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories).
— Orson Scott Card
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
— Bruce Springsteen
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
— Candace Bushnell
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
— Callie Khouri
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
— Eliza Doolittle
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
— Anais Nin
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
— John Sayles
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book.
— Roald Dahl
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked.
— D. V. Ager
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
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
— Cory Booker
Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.
— Jake M. Johnson
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth ... as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.
— Scarlett Thomas
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
Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.
— Volker Bertelmann
A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.
— Robert Stoller
Whoever is missing in action turns Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling... — Simeon Dumdum Jr.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
— Michael J. Saylor
Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook.
— Steve Inskeep
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
— Emma Donoghue
Stories are invented as you go along...
— Orson Scott Card
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
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.
— John Le Carre
All sorts of people told me their stories. Then they left, never to return, as if I were no more than a bridge they were clattering across.
— Haruki Murakami
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
— Jerome Bruner
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
— Neil Oliver
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
— Darren Aronofsky
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
— Alan Ball
