Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful. — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
“Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
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