A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
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The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world.… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to ask for what you need to get the story you want. Be yourself and be informal. Forming trusting… — Ivy Meeropol Copy Share Image
I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
The way that you have cut the film, you can take the audience out of the action if it becomes evident that… — Wade Eastwood Copy Share Image
Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes -… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing,… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character,… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here,… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some… — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories… — James Caan Copy Share Image
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
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