Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“We all have stories, and it's a wonderful thing when our stories catch up with just the right person. It's the beauty… — Olivia Newport Copy Share Image
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
“Yes", Kumiko said, seriously. "Exactly that. The extraordinary happens all the time. So much, we can't take it. Life and happiness and… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A.… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a… — David Finch Copy Share Image
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it's kind of their prayer that… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story… — Erro Copy Share Image
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion,… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image