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What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part? — Alasdair MacIntyre

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. — Gary Crowley

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life. — Laura Allen

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. — Chris Van Allsburg

I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together. — Leslie Marmon Silko

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that. — Kim Basinger

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. — Maile Meloy

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.' — Monica Seles

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. — Yann Martel

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. — Flannery O'Connor

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. — Jack Kerouac

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is. — Deepak Chopra

The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I'm pretty sure that's what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean — Sophie Kinsella

Be the story teller in your life ... never let anyone dictate what you're about. — Robbie Thomas

Peace comes the moment we let go of our story about how the world should be and find the truth of what is. — Bruce Van Horn

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

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find. — William H. Armstrong

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see. — Karen Lord

...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands. — Alexandra Zapruder

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us. — Ernest Hemingway,

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer. — Dan B. Allender

So yo then man what's your story? — David Foster Wallace

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

The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie) — Dan Carruthers

But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story? — Hanya Yanagihara

A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen. — Taylor Hackford

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it. — Byron Katie

What he had to tell them was a story — Daniel Quinn

Tell me a story then ... keep me occupied."
"A story? ... What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on. — Megan Whalen Turner

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold all
kinds of wares. Finally he said, What a lot of things I don't need! — Jostein Gaarder

It's only a story, isn't it?" ...
"Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story? — David Eddings

Gratitude is what we are without a story. — Byron Katie

Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you. — Patti Callahan Henry

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me. — Chris Evert

Michele realized that what she took for granted as the simple necessities of life, he saw it as a story beyond imagination. — Alexandra Monir

No one gets to tell you what your life means! — Jess Walter

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare

I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's more important to me than a name, brand, or label. — Nikki Reed

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. — Arthur Golden

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together. — Anne Carson

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read. — Nick Denton

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story. — Brian Henson

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. — Flannery O'Connor

Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds. — Ann Voskamp

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield

Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them. — Kaki Warner

Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me. — Pat Conroy

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story). — Francine Prose

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to. — Rebecca Eaton

I'm not sure what the moral is here ... I really just wanted to tell that story. — Tim Gunn

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? — Nick Denton

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story. — Katie Cassidy

A bit unsporting, what?" he said. "Ought to ferret out the mystery before we go. Whole thing's like a detective story. Positively thrilling. — Anonymous

'So what happens next?'
'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.'
'Like any other story, then.' — Sarah Monette

I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later. — Megan Miranda

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else. — Brandon Stanton

Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. — Stephen King

Troy, I have to find out what happened to my dad."
"We know what happened to your dad. He got smoted. End of story. — Tera Lynn Childs

We are what we read. It's probably better that way. — Malcolm Gladwell

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

Listen to what speaks to your heart. — A.D. Posey

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be — Joseph Story

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

What I like best is a good story with a moral. — Oscar Micheaux

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me — Deirdre Riordan Hall

What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another? — Rachel Hauck

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told. — Anastasia Hollings

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody. — Elton John

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. — Andre Gide

An erotic photograph is like a still from an unfolding story that makes you wonder what has already happened and what is about to happen next. — Chloe Thurlow

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time. - The Procession — Benjamin Brindise

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story. — Matthew Lewis

Let me enjoy my fan-wanking.
Your what?
Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs. — Amanda Stevens

Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story! — Stephen King

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto

I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be. — N'Zuri Za Austin

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do. — Annette Bening

What are you doing here?
Just trying to find my story. — Brandi Laplante

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness. — Sharon Salzberg

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Stieg Larsson

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story. — Isabel Allende

We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be." That — Rick Riordan

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address. — Steve Breen

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story? — Cornelia Funke