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
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
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
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
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
Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the… — Robert Englund 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
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart:… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North 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
“Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of… — Kat Zhang Copy Share Image
“How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet.… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry… — Ice T Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
In the Forest of Forgetting do you remember any romances? All the relationships in those stories are dark and twisted - people… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
