He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

I have a great story to tell… and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there’s no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are...

There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn’t afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Your audience is your adversary. If you don’t have one get one – imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination....

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up – and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement...

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

There’s a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it’s a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone...

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to...

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It’s the doorway through which they can’t return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it’s not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer’s sense of ‘I want...

I’m not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it’s going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story...

He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was...

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you’ll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone’s...

She’s the main character in her story, just like I’m the main character in mine.

You are not eternal. Leave an eternal mark.

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it’s a four-year story.

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective...

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly ‘what’s wrong’ with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don’t identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it’s relevant to the...

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

I think decor says a lot about someone’s social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work – and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, ‘That guy can write a story.’ It’s prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It’s very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here’s...

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on ‘American Horror Story,’ I’m kind of ready to hurl.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

People shouldn’t just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He had been invited to a conference of heart specialists in North America. On the eve...

By Aladdin’s lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don’t have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

I’m an around-the-way girl. I’m a singer, songwriter. I’m about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people’s story.

Two guys, a goat, and a ghost: A love story based on true events that may or may not be false. Who doesn’t love a good goat story?

There’s a television show, ‘Hoarders,’ where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.