The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is reverent. This is Star Wars, damn it. You don't screw around with it. The things that were improv'd or added… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
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I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
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We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
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I think what I'm after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
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If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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You hear loads of stories about boys going on loan and different things like that and I always had it in my… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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