Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt.… — Ann Friedman Copy Share Image
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost,… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't… — Steve Rizzo Copy Share Image
The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early… — Elisa Kreisinger Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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![“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of…” quote by Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0cc/michael-eric-dyson-1424_benjamin-button_when-you-saw-the-movie-the-curious-case_2223405.png)
![“[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was…” quote by David Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d5/david-limbaugh-8075_administration_w-hile-people-are-making-a-big-fuss-over_1772536.jpg)
![“It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with…” quote by Ellen Page](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b31/ellen-page-2745_beautiful_it-s-a-beautiful-book-into-the-forest-so_2311068.jpg)
![“[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.” quote by Nicole Kidman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/231/nicole-kidman-1321_bigs_as-a-producer-big-little-lies-is-the-sto_1803467.jpg)
