I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
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
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to… — Tara Fela-Durotoye Copy Share Image
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster.… — Jason Mewes Copy Share Image
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under… — Tom Goodman-Hill Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not.… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we… — Terrence J Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. — Ruth Brown 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
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
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
“What matters isn't the stories themselves; it's how the stories end.” — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
