Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart.

It’s a very remarkable story.””Remarkable’s a well-chosen word. It doesn’t give you away.

My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the...

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel....

The waitress serving the wedding party was a short young blonde. She took their orders efficiently and delivered everyone’s food correctly. “Ifonly she knew my story,” Melora mused. then she thought again, “Better yet,maybe she’s...

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

Physics is the story of time, with everything or nothing.

En mi juventud me enseñaron que en el corazón de cada historia se esconde una semilla de realidad” -Bastet

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don’t so much focus on what has...

When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn’t over yet. Our story may have come to a close,...

I am content when writing short stories.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on...

I don’t want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

Because people make a story of their lives.Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into eachcategory. You can learn a lot about what you put into...

If he is a ghost, then it’s very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won’t be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn’t it?

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words ‘The End’ and that’s...

Whatever how much you know,if you don’t know, who you are, in what world you are living, or simply where you are, and from where you came from. Because if you do know, that’s completely...

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

Get lost in a story–in your dream fantasy…

People tell stories and it’s up to those who listen whether to believe or not.””Shouldn’t the storyteller believe it.””The storyteller should tell it.

Where story comes from, I don’t know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can’t explain,...

When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

I don’t think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it’s crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

I like a lot of independent brands – Melbourne’s Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It’s easier to be proud of what you’re wearing if you’ve met the people behind the brand...

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting – the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library...

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I’d mistaken it as my own.p 284

You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm – the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore...

It is your personal story that makes you relatable. Not assigning judgment, or pressing blame. Your story, wrapped in God, around his Word, and what he has done in your life will safely lead women...

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

The people who’d made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day’s end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that...

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who...

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the...

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.