I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch… — Joey Logano Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist?… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“We all spin stories. That's what we do. We want people to see certain things about us and not others. What matters… — Maya Lang Copy Share Image
The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic… Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at… — M. G. Vassanji Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the… — T.I Copy Share Image
The story of Kal-El is actually a great story about adoption. He is an alien who has embraced his human side. As… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want… — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image