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I ARE There are very few stories from those that were actually there, ... (and) his story was breathtaking... BERNIE FARBER JASPER FFORDE PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was one of those situations where you have instincts as a reporter, and instincts as a human bein... CLYDE HUGHES But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori... CHARLAYNE WOODARD There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for bo... L.A. WEATHERLY With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I ... DON BLUTH TOM WAITS Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS EVE ENSLER If you are really interested in the stories, ask for details. That makes it more interesting for the... JOCHEN TENTER Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON RALPH WALDO EMERSON The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Pu... PAUL GREENGRASS ANDRé BRETON HARUKI MURAKAMI We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all nig... JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL SANDRA CISNEROS I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one t... IAN HACKING VIRGINIA WOOLF SYDNEY POLLACK MICHAEL POLLAN PAULO COELHO NEIL GAIMAN There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one... CULLEN BUNN CARRIE RYAN CHARLES DE LINT We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have th... BILLY MARSHALL STONEKING When you teach through puppets you are giving children something to remember the story with. A milk ... MARILYN PRICE Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more o... SETH ADAM SMITH Never get to the point where you cannot see anything good about yourself SOTONYE ANGA AJAY NAIDU NATHAN MYHRVOLD PATRICIA BRIGGS OSHO No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of... KAZI SHAMS DAVID MORSE There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories fr... BRIAN DOYLE A. C. BENSON CRAIG GROESCHEL When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold ... JIM HENSON COMPANY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a ... ALASDAIR GRAY That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person SOTONYE ANGA CANDACE BUSHNELL I realized all the stories I was interested in were Southern stories, ... They are who I am and I ne... CYNTHIA HILL CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stori... PAUL MURRAY LAUREN OLIVER There were students from all over the world. Their professor asked them to write thank-you letters. ... FRED SHAW DAVID LEVITHAN DORIS LESSING JEAN HOUSTON TATYANA TOLSTAYA I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki... ANTHONY SHADID I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. DARIN STRAUSS We all have a duty to define who we are SOTONYE ANGA ALAN FURST BEN OKRI When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn... BYRON KATIE WALTER BAGEHOT ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON WALTER MOSLEY Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up... ALI SMITH Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b... ELIZABETH HAYDON Building assets is very, very challenging unless you have a good story to tell. There are a lot of f... BURT GREENWALD BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA DARREN ARONOFSKY SUNDAY ADELAJA ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infini... KELLY BARNHILL Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO LYNDA BARRY NEIL GAIMAN CHARLES DE LINT DEYTH BANGER There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a gr... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
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Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... 
Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it no... 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditiona... 
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som... 
Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. 
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are... 
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... 
How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. 
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and ... 
Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, an... 
By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the... 
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, s... 
You are more focus when you confront. 
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparat... 
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are ... 
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur... 
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all ... 
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for... 
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. 
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ... 
The good stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going... 
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used whe... 
For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u... 
you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a... 
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe... 
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because ... 
I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the mas... 
There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ... 
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wond... 
Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel... 
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... 
In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ... 
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller chara... 
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which ... 
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for... 
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful ... 
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given and received, that is when the... 
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo... 
The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicle... 
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. Wh... 
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of... 
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of... 
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... 
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the onl... 
We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as m... 
When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge t... 
I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. 
YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... 
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason ... 
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No... 
No need to feel shame for what you are. 
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr... 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. 
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc... 
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ... 
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t... 
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You... 
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued... 
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? 
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s... 
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w... 
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon... 
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. 