I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Yeah, we've become really good friends. Our characters start dating in the book, and um, yeah, I think we - and we… — Johnny Simmons Copy Share Image
As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. “Be nice to one another” is… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down,… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story.… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
![“I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who…” quote by Steven Caple Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9c9/steven-caple-jr-49791_cautionary-tales_i-ve-been-with-the-project-for-like-thre_2872134.jpg)
![“I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was…” quote by Sarah Gavron](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/56f/sarah-gavron-53093_cinematic_i-had-wanted-to-make-this-film-suffraget_1650094.jpg)
![“...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring…” quote by Arthur Rubinstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/84f/arthur-rubinstein-17373_amused_stories-about-the-german-composer-johann_2777721.jpg)
![“One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we…” quote by Danny Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cf8/danny-boyle-3499_born_one-of-the-things-in-the-mary-shelley-fr_233734.jpg)
