People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping,… — John Chaney Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to… — Wynonna Judd Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance.… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
