Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

As long as they talk about you, you’re not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn’t die, just because the man dies.

To me, the word ‘hero’ hasn’t got positive or negative value – ‘hero’ is the person who leads you through the story.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

A brief, well-crafted story that is relevant to your topic is one of the most potent ways to maintain the attention of your audience. But the story must be kind. Benjamin Disraeli said: “Never tell...

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important – where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the...

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed...

Watch out, or I’m liable to put you in a story.

Just because they’re a story doesn’t mean they’re not real.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!

„Anticarul nu pierdu ocazia să-i relateze pe larg cum venise Georgeoiu înt ia oară la Capșa în căutarea poetului, știind că acesta trecea zilnic pe-acolo, trebuia să semneze un contract important. Era seara, pe la...

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in ‘real’ African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called “softskins” whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship...

Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls…

All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don’t close, they continue.

What happened?” Bailey asks.”That is somewhat difficult to explain,” Tsukiko answers. “It is a long and complicated story.””And you’re not going to tell me, are you?”She tilts her head a bit … “No, I am...

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know....

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

We’re all born an empty page.

As children’, wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, ‘we lived in Onslow Square and used to play in the garden behind the houses. Charles Dodgson used to stay with...

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

But it’s a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don’t want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

You said this was only the beginning, I didn’t realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

Many stories magnify a fact.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One… I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a...

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares...

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas – to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the...

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

Maybe that’s why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story...

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Ils ne savaient peut-être pas que les histoires s’écrivaient le plus souvent avec des matériaux usagés et que l’auteur devait donner à tout cela l’allure du neuf.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.