I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
This kind of behavior is so bizarre – no matter which version of the story you believe, even if you take Doug’s… — Michael Farris Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me… — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life. — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect — Drake Copy Share Image
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity. — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
