Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in… — Moran Atias Copy Share Image
All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
