Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly… — Loren Bouchard Copy Share Image
I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great… — Jim Toomey Copy Share Image
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet,… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you… — William Campbell Gault Copy Share Image
The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup… — Zhang Xi Copy Share Image
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending… — M. Christina White Copy Share Image
I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student… — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going.… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
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