I had a calling, this is what happened, I've explained the story many times. I've had my priest on, I've had atheists… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“Gap... A gesture, incomplete! Something unfinished, Left. A trust of heart, Faith! Hope... A few Stories yet to be completed! Perhaps. A… — Tahreem Rahat Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts,… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing…… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee 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
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end.… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I had a great time working with Denis [Villeneuve] and the whole group. It was a very different kind of a part… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
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