I loved Milan. I was there for six years and made my stories there. — Alexandre Pato Copy Share Image
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen. — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he… — Diandra Asbaty Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Earlier this week - this is crazy - the country's first marijuana cafe opened up, which not only sells medical marijuana, but… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old,… — Ralph McGill Copy Share Image
I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of tranquility.” Then… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
