The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel. — Komla Dumor Copy Share Image
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature,… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“After a significant loss, it's tempting to live life in the past - wishing it had been different, screaming that it was… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,… — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image