For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the… — Tom Cavanagh Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories… — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories,… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image