Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon.… — James Spann Copy Share Image
Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
God really does have a plan for every child that He knits together, even when they look broken to the world outside,… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
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