I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know,… — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after;… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note,… — Michael Kennedy Copy Share Image
A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Even the hard times are a part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
