I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image