Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. — Euripides Copy Share Image
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.” — David Eddings Copy Share Image
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. — Christine Keeler Copy Share Image
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I am always looking for stories that will shed light on how companies define themselves - for better or for worse. When… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Great stories resonate with the human mind because they reflect the conflicts our minds have to deal with as we learn and… — David Baboulene Copy Share Image
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers,… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me. — John Searles Copy Share Image
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life. — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
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