I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain,” a voice thundered down from the third story of… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some… — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services,… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
