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 a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

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 happen. The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.

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 the only ones left — who will know our stories then? Who will remember those?

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. You can’t tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is...

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.

My theory is, I don’t know how long it’s going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that’s it – simple.

Story should be a descent — the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth telling.

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn’t have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

We don’t know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one.

Lollypop…the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks…

The universe is an untold story of time.

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the ‘Chicago Tribune’ from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it’s the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.I am not in this part of the story; it hasn’t come to the part with me. But I’m waiting, far off in...

Every story is us

Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

Ture stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Blurred is the picture, To not know what’s next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is…A story of our fate!

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

Some people love their story that much even if it’s of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don’t know how to stop telling it. Maybe it’s about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear—you have to die a little to be reborn, and death...

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you...

There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

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 of the meeting, out of respect for the fat-clogs-the-arteries theory, the delegates sat down to a special banquet served without...

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?

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything.

How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar… One evening I was so interested in my laboratory that I forgot about my supper till quite late, and then rushed off for a...

True or not, it’s important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.