Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
“People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends. — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams. — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback. — Liam James Copy Share Image
I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.” — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
