The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as… — Radhika Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the… — Walter Lantz Copy Share Image
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . .… — Anouk Aimee Copy Share Image
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image