One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think… — Isabelle Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In… — Tobe Hooper Copy Share Image
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like,… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories.… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I've loved the "Star Wars" movies for the ride and pure fun and found that it just didn't stand up when asked… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
