There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Even though Noah is in the Koran as well. But we knew going into this project that you can't make stories or… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating… — Roberta Williams Copy Share Image
It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep… — Scott Bedbury Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for. — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as… — Tim Leffel Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
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