I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the… — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Copy Share Image
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
“THE YEAR OF THE RAT Chen Qiufan KORMAK THE LUCKY Eleanor Arnason IN THE MOUNTAINS OF FROZEN FIRE Rus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image