“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're… — Colleen Haskell Copy Share Image
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall… — John Denver Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Everything is happening faster on the Internet, so advertisers have to be able to respond quickly. If there is a pop-culture topic,… — Jason Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to… — James Frain Copy Share Image
My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Some stories seem to lend themselves to telling right away. 'All The President's Men' was done, what, four or five years after… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men,… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you… — Jai Courtney Copy Share Image
