“She obviously didn’t realize the depth and breadth of the stories I could tell without touching the things I didn’t want her… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually. — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
... I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story.… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting… — Matthew Bonifacio Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if he was not very consciously and deliberately choosing particular chapters of his life to tell, in order… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should."… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image