Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious.… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and… — George Stroumboulopoulos Copy Share Image
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years,… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or… — Lindy Booth Copy Share Image
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Music is trying to tell a story, and I love the rock vibe. Hearing that finished product is almost the same high… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second… — Edward John Trelawny Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every… — Shakira Copy Share Image
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Soros and the Tides Foundation have been trying to indoctrinate our kids. Do you remember that stupid - what was the name… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background,… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think that's something that Oprah [Winfrey] and Ava [ DuVernay] do seamlessly. They know how to connect to people and they… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image