Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They… — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it was because [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were part of what made up the movie, The Day the Earth… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta… — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy.… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
This is reverent. This is Star Wars, damn it. You don't screw around with it. The things that were improv'd or added… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun.… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I failed was because I figured out in the research process that I couldn't tell it as… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
![“Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest…” quote by J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/553/j-r-r-tolkien-204_courage_sam-i-wonder-if-we-ll-ever-be-put-into-s_3115230.jpg)
![“Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a…” quote by Nate Parker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d9a/nate-parker-10210_alex_far-too-often-scripts-are-being-written_1667453.jpg)
![“Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I guess I was just trying to keep up, really, that was my hope at the end of the day; that I could do them justice and do the story [Maze Runner] justice and do Wes [Ball] justice.” quote by Dylan O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/184/dylan-o-brien-7142_balls_everyone-was-so-good-at-what-they-were-d_2537907.jpg)
![“I think it was because [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were part of what made up the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klaatu was actually a European among the Americans. And so the person who wrote the story said that Klaatu came from Europa, the fourth moon of Jupiter, which is now being…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/572/paul-laffoley-7077_earth_i-think-it-was-because-nikola-tesla-and_696211.jpg)
![“There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's…” quote by Daniel Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7e5/daniel-radcliffe-919_adept_there-were-some-parts-of-the-film-swiss_2408968.jpg)
![“You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He[Mark Webb] does both and I think he's going to be…” quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/48b/joseph-gordon-levitt-1583_beautiful_you-usually-get-one-or-the-other-you-get_44077.jpg)
