Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. - Lynn Abbey remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT! - Jaachynma N E Agu Only God can write the end of your story. - Mitch Albom Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains. - Paulo Coelho How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? - Jodi Picoult Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set...

If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest adding broken glass to the tub. If my mother insisted on listening to West Side Story repeatedly, it was Dorothy who said, 'Let's listen to it on forty-five!' And when my mother announced that she wanted a fur wrap like Auntie Mame, Dorothy bought her an unstable Norwegian elkhound from a puppy mill. - Augusten Burroughs I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat. - Vanessa Hudgens Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. - John Lithgow West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York. - Vincente Minnelli I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to...

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side. - Bob Kane Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that. - Wally Lamb

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it. - Craig T Nelson I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.' - Jackie Weaver

I haven't bought Jerra flowers since I pissed her off when we were datin' and fell asleep durin' some crappy-ass movie she forced me to take her to sayin' that movie was Hollywood's version f us. How could I fall asleep watching the story of us, she asks. And, bro, if that was us, we are borin' as shit. - Kristen Ashley the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all - Frederick Buechner I miss you because memory is a kind editor. The past is a long scroll and in it is the story of us, told with gentle metaphor, and words that bring you back and back, even as you lie there, lying. - Corey Mesler And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. - Taylor Swift

Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl,' I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way. - Anna Chlumsky I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time. - Noah Hathaway Myth is, after all, the neverending story. - Joan D Vinge

I always thought the Nativity Story needed a little comic releif... --Ron Shawver from The Great Northern Coven - Bruce Jenvey This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. - Karl Pilkington

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. - Kevin J Anderson There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story. - Susanna Hoffs

Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains. - Paulo Coelho Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you? - Giuseppe Bianco It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen. - Francesca Lia Block I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either. - Dorothea Benton Frank Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you. - Neil Gaiman Toni Mo...

How do you end a story that's not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn't there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own? - Shaila M Abdullah There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. - J R R Tolkien It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. - Mitch Albom This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We jus...

[On Jason Mashak's "I Was Trained to See Shadows", in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it. - John Bennett Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. - Amanda Burton Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. - Walt Disney Company Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. - Walt Disney Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter maybe less that a lot, but always more than none. - John Gree...

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. - Ernest Hemingway And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them. - John Steinbeck I ask you right here to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must see all scars as beauty... because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this story teller is alive. The next think you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile. - Chris Cleave Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this story teller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happ...

I haven't bought Jerra flowers since I pissed her off when we were datin' and fell asleep durin' some crappy-ass movie she forced me to take her to sayin' that movie was Hollywood's version f us. How could I fall asleep watching the story of us, she asks. And, bro, if that was us, we are borin' as shit. - Kristen Ashley the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all - Frederick Buechner I miss you because memory is a kind editor. The past is a long scroll and in it is the story of us, told with gentle metaphor, and words that bring you back and back, even as you lie there, lying. - Corey Mesler And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. - Taylor Swift

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins. - Mitch Albom But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. - Mitch Albom Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story. - Chris Cleave The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. - America Ferrera Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we...

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. - Lynn Abbey Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. - Chinua Achebe remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT! - Jaachynma N E Agu Only God can write the end of your story. - Mitch Albom Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains. - Paulo Coelho How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? - Jodi Picoult Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't ...

Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl,' I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way. - Anna Chlumsky There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. Never-ending Story - Michael Ende You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are. But when you been through the Nothing, you won't be real anymore. You'll be unrecognizable. And you will be in another world. In that world, you Fantasticans won't be anything like yourselves. You will bring delusion and madness into the human world. - Michael Ende I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time. - Noah Hathaway My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-en...

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can. - Edward Abbey Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder? - Joe Abercrombie The lesson in caution has been well learned,' said Strider with a grim smile. 'But caution is one thing and wavering is another. You will never get to Rivendell now on your own, and to trust me is your only chance. You must make up your mind. I will answer some of your questions, if that will help you to do so. But why should you believe my story, if you do not trust me already? Still here it is--- - J R R Tolkien I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. ...