When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
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Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives;… — Jean-Claude Carriere Copy Share Image
I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career.… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you,… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors]… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was… — Prince William Copy Share Image
The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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