I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
When you see me up on a breaking-news story, it is not good news. I'm not about to give you the secret… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“I love Black Beauty, but it's just a story, of course. What matters is. . . I don't know. . . what… — Deborah Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.' — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know?… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
'Mr. Robot,' in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
“Everything has a story,a history or past Nothing ever just happens, Find that story...” — Shawn Alsager Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I'm not a story; I'm a person, and my passion is music. And I want your passion to be my music -… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction. — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
“Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
“It was wrong and impossible and illicit and yet each minute with the boy was a gift, a scene from a story… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'd be happy to do a project of any genre as long as the audience can enjoy the story because of my… — Hwang Jung-eum Copy Share Image
Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story. — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
TV is really fun because there are so many different things you can play with; you can tell a story in a… — Kasie Hunt Copy Share Image
