every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain. — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here? — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want to be able to create characters for as long as I can and I want to tell stories for as… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The Thorn and the Blossom isn't just a love story. It's about two people who decide what they actually want to do… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind,… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
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