There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward,… — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
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