I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing… — Howard E. Wasdin Copy Share Image
The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
“I just think we shouldn't judge her, or anyone, without trying to understand them first. That maybe we should get the full… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
“The three children had hear the story of the Duene lovers, but they interpreted it differently. And it does not matter, ultimately,… — Tiphanie Yanique Copy Share Image
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to… — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be… — David Shore Copy Share Image
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it.… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional… — Greg Pak Copy Share Image
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
