Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“These stories at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window.… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives Spiderwick a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans… — Mark Canton Copy Share Image
The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
![“I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and I respect him. It's interesting; I respect the character that I play. I don't understand it, but I do. That's a good thing. I think so, I think so. I never felt like that…” quote by Jackson Rathbone](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/293/jackson-rathbone-25920_character_i-just-really-like-the-characte-jasper-h_2351302.jpg)
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