Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity,...

If the characters are not wicked, the book is.” We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket...

When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true,...

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What’s the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep?...

Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he’s laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious.

Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I’ve done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will...

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Colega ei îşi făcuse un titlu de glorie din s ngele rece şi avea o rezervă aparent inepuizabilă de poveşti pentru cei uşor impresionabili. Cea mai de succes istorie, care punea întotdeauna pe g nduri...

Books,’ I say sleepily. ‘They don’t change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it’s still the same thing. But it’s exciting all over again.

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into ‘The Battle of the Five Armies,’ it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it’s like a whole new adventure all of...

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

I can’t impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

‘The 5th Wave’ is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it...

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

I always like to tell a story.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

I’m going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don’t fly. They’re the subs for the first ones....

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I’m stretching for something new and difficult that I haven’t done before.

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn’t let too much truth seep into your conversation,...

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical...

Kung nandito siya, sana..

Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

My life story is too long to tweet. Too long by two characters—and by characters I don’t mean Dora J. Arod and Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness, and, above all, her longing, the insult of the power of her longing, and she knew very well that is...

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Our story may have any number of endings but its start is a singular choice we make today.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I’m wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I’m very happy for...

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too – not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know...

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

It’s not that I don’t believe you,” Peter managed. “I’m sorry. It’s just that…it’s only a story.””Perhaps.” She shrugged. “And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say...

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

I let my game do the talking. I’ve had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for...

I’m nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller....

… without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. “Be nice to one another” is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of...

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up...

A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before...

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going – even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire