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Makes you want to fold stories inside of stories inside of stories.
— Kristopher Jansma
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
— Neil Gaiman
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
We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.
— Steve Hagen
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
— John Patrick Shanley
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
— Billy Graham
I started writing stories in my spare time.
— Ken Follett
Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories
— Joseph Dunn
Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
— Robert Holdstock
Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
— Oren Lyons
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.
— Joe Berlinger
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
— Gore Vidal
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
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
Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
— John Darnielle
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories.
— Richard Finney
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
— George Lucas
Every experience is a book to be written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.
— Ice Cube
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.
— Thomas C. Foster
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
— Jeanette Winterson
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.
— Christina Baldwin
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
— Bruno Mars
They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything.
— Rainbow Rowell
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
— Stephen King
She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.
— Alice Hoffman
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
— Chris Hegedus
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
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
— Mark Hart
The situation was saved; Brisbane was going to tell a story.
— Francis Marion Crawford
I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.
— Bruno Zheng Wu
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
— Patrick DeWitt
Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.
— Karen Tei Yamashita
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
— Chuck Palahniuk
What I like best is a good story with a moral.
— Oscar Micheaux
'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.
— Conan O'Brien
You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.
— Andrew Lennon
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
— Michelle Williams
We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.
— Sarah Cross
If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.
— Gwenn Wright
We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness.
— Hannah Brencher
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
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth ... as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
— Colum McCann
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 greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
— Steve Maraboli
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
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
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
— Amy Purdy
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
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
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
— Christina Baldwin
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
— Samuel Johnson
It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.
— Byron Katie
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.
— Mark Dever
Everybody is a story.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
— Martin Freeman
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
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
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
— Evangeline Lilly
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
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation.
— Marilyn R. Wilson
I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.
— Harrison Ford
So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish.
— Lemony Snicket
Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.
— Jon Krakauer
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
— Christopher Nolan
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Fairy tales are more than true ...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton