I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
We kept moving forward, kept pretty particular about certain things. Don Handfield is really great with story, so we kept working on… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta… — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story.… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel.… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
I have making a new film called Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost.… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ.… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
![“I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle…” quote by Condola Rashad](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8fc/condola-rashad-18757_actors_i-ve-realized-that-a-lot-of-people-go-to_2962817.png)
![“I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].” quote by Jeremy Clarkson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0d6/jeremy-clarkson-2634_alberta_i-d-just-find-a-story-in-canada-and-come_2945468.jpg)
![“In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cad/khaled-hosseini-251_expansion_in-march-of-2001-i-revisited-the-short-s_173828.png)
