“Great stories are not the ones which have great people in them. Great stories are the ones which have ordinary people, willing… — Priyanka singh Copy Share Image
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every… — Ron Haviv Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words .… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's… — Shawn Ashmore Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story.… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
![“There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.” quote by Peter Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/988/peter-jackson-1771_amount_there-s-no-real-rules-about-what-you-do_2104258.jpg)
![“The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces…” quote by Aisha Hinds](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/864/aisha-hinds-19362_autopsy_the-show-shots-fired-is-an-autopsy-of-ou_1960322.jpg)
![“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth… [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the…” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1d7/william-shakespeare-4_body_let-s-talk-of-graves-of-worms-and-epitap_570741.jpg)
