There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something.… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a cliché. But my experience,… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic —… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image