But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit.… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife.… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“Stories can make us remember—or forget—who we are. They have the power to topple governments or build empires. They are the life… — Laura Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't… — Mary Crosby Copy Share Image
When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive,… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
