When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head.… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways,… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to… — Seamus McGarvey Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a… — Eppu Nuotio Copy Share Image
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution:… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Elephant wanted no part of Rupert Panther. Rather, he wanted Rupert Panther to have no part of him, which was a realistic… — T.A. Young Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
In the back I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them.… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
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