“fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn’t happen to people who didn’t exist. Why?… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't mind bad stories when it's true, but we have an administration where the Democrats are making it very difficult. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe 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
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
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
“Because stories are how we share our lives and what we truly mourn when they are lost. Stories are what connect us… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just… — Teryl Rothery Copy Share Image
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women,… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
![“People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.” quote by Cat Deeley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/224/cat-deeley-9067_human-beings_people-will-always-want-it-reality-tv-sh_1104622.jpg)
