It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating. — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“I am not disappointed by my old age. There are still stories to tell, paths to walk, and fire within that refuses… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
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