For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or… — Ina Brink Copy Share Image
When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Thorn and The Blossom can be read from either side - you can choose whether to read it from Brendan's or… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
