You don’t just have a story – you’re a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter’s going to be. That’s what makes it exciting. – Dan Millman
If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there’s no higher story than Jesus Christ. – Diogo Morgado
Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It’s like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess – it’s not going to make sense. – Duncan Jones
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that’s unfolding in my imagination. – Deborah Raney
‘Gillespie and I’ is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires. – Carolyn See
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
I don’t like the word ‘autobiography.’ I rather like the term ‘autofiction.’ The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it. – Marjane Satrapi
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it’s true, but they don’t have any evidence that it is true! – David Eagleman
It’s true to say that once I’ve got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places. – Michelle Paver
Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. – Paul Ricoeur
‘Johnny Tremain,’ Paul Revere’s Ride, today’s Tea Partiers – you have to tune all that out to get at the real story. – Nathaniel Philbrick
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way. – E. L. Konigsburg
I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell. – Nicholas Jarecki
There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person’s story is as different as his fingertips. – Elsa Lanchester
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They’re fun to read – and, yes, fun to write. – Chris Bohjalian
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. – Darin Strauss
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence. – Max Apple
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. – Edith Wharton
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 example. – Maurice Ashley
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn’t see. – Dan Chaon
When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you’re caught in this sort of timeless moment. – Michael Paterniti
Francois Truffaut was my godfather on ‘Sugar Cane Alley.’ He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made. – Euzhan Palcy
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. – Frank Luntz
