“Knowing the story doesn't make it any better. We get what we're given, nothing more, nothing less.” — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I left 'Fast and Furious' because I just felt like, at a certain point, after number six, there wasn't another story that… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design,… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Funnel The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost-new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
In most of our love stories the people are quite young in age. 'Once Again' is a love story about two mature… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
'Korra' is its own series. Obviously it's tied in, in the same world, a similar story, but it's not just 'Book Four'… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment. — Jodie Comer Copy Share Image
Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Finding true love may be a beautiful portion of your story, but it was never intended to be the grand finale.” — Debra Fileta Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
With 'Breathe', the whole team feels lucky and blessed that our hard work has created a story which people are connecting with. — Amit Sadh Copy Share Image
I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened… — Lil Tjay Copy Share Image
In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
