There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward,… — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife.… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
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