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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
— Alan Rickman
Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged.
— Elise Forier Edie
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
Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.
— Travis Thrasher
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
— Cornelia Funke
When my husband was dying, I said: Moe, how am I supposed to live without you? He told me: take the love you have for me and spread it around.
— Brandon Stanton
All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this ...
— Shirley Jackson
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser
When stories are not told, we risk losing our way.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better.
— Stanley Kubrick
It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER) — Jerome K. Jerome
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— Robert Holdstock
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
— Nicholas Sparks
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
— Edgar Allan Poe
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.
— Jim Bob Duggar
And once I'd unloaded all my teenage pain on him, he knew the way to win my trust. He never told me what to do. Instead, he told me stories.
— Amanda Palmer
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
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
— Louis L'Amour
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
— Samuel Johnson
Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
— Andrew Stanton
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [ ... ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.
— Primo Levi
I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.
— Edna O'Brien
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
— Rachel Kushner
stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.
— Patrick Rothfuss
It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.
— Mark Van Doren
I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
— Erin Morgenstern
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
— Lauren Myracle
I've always thought my poems told stories.
— Douglas Dunn
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
— Bruce Springsteen
All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true.
— Brandon Sanderson
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
— Vincent Schiavelli
My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.
— Lionel Shriver
Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.
— Christopher Babson
When I was a little kid, I told stories.
— Stephen Tobolowsky
Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?
— Rush Limbaugh
our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.
— Lemuel Arthur Pittenger
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
— Maeve Binchy
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
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
I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.
— Liam James
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
— Marcus Sedgwick
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
— Ellen Hopkins
Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
— Arthur Kornberg
History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
— Julianne Malveaux
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.
— Ciro Guerra
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
— Sophie Kennedy Clark
No- one is ever told any story but their own.
— Reza Aslan
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
— Michael Scott
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
— Ambrose Bierce
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
— Dolores Huerta
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
— Marie De France
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
The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
— Shonda Rhimes
Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.
— James P. Carse
The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.
— Elizabeth Lesser
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
— Marita Golden
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
— Andreas Deja
A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.
— Philip Pullman
Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.
— Okey Ndibe
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
— Bruce Springsteen
But there are other stories waiting to be told, and they will be lost one day, too. Whatever the case, it's all beneath your feet, right now.
— Brian Selznick
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
— Colum McCann
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
— Stephen King
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.
— Robert A. M. Stern
Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told
— Henry David Thoreau
