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The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) — Tom Callahan

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. — Paloma Faith

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. — Frankie Cosmos

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. — Siri Hustvedt

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

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs. — Adrian Tomine

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. — Victoria Schwab

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

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them. — Patterson Hood

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me. — Phil Klay

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

God is the creator of all good plot twists! — Shannon L. Alder

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys. — Solange Knowles

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret

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

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds. — William Loren Katz

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

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. — Bernard Malamud

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

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

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz

People need stories ... we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. — Jennifer Chiaverini

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

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing. — Alice Munro

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

I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? — Alice Hoffman

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

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

People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. — Chester Elijah Branch

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people. — Tom Barbash

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

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

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

Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves. — Karen Healey

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people. — Tim O'Reilly

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories. — Soroosh Shahrivar

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

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about. — Sanhita Baruah

Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. — Elbert Hubbard

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. — William Sleator

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die. — Anatoly Rybakov

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it. — Adam Driver

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

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories ... and that requires virtually no technology. — Steven Levitan

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

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them. — Kate Rockland

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. — Assegid Habtewold

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know. — Cate Kennedy

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King

The mages' stories may be deceitful, but they raise the questions that the majority of people prefer to overlook. — Andrew Orange

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories. — Mira Nair

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. — Naguib Mahfouz

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

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it. — Aaron Carter

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. — Olivier Dahan

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story. — Jim Butcher

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people. — Robert Michael Pyle

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people. — Bob Saget

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. — Nicholas Sparks

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

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams

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

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

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light — John Lennox

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. — Brian Pinkerton

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.' — Heather Brooke

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell. — Carolyn Murphy

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

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

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

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. — Ian McEwan

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

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

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all. — D.J. Weaver

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

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

All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. — Brandon Sanderson

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

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

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary. — Freida Pinto

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph. — Oprah Winfrey

Authors tell stories with "the express intention of wanting people to believe them, at least until the book is closed. — Elizabeth Edmonson

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

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. — Sara Sheridan

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

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another. — Isaac Marion

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst. — Logan Pearsall Smith

When people stop writing down their stories, the soul of the world is lost. — Ann Aguirre

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

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong. — Ira Glass