I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing… — Charlie McDermott Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If I had a script that I was ready to shoot tomorrow, I'd work on it every day until we got into… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars. — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman. — Dyllan McGee Copy Share Image
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story. — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
“What matters isn't the stories themselves; it's how the stories end.” — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
In the night, I hear 'em talk. Coldest story ever told. Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be… — Paul Lazarsfeld Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise. — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
