I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So… — Mike Duke Copy Share Image
Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story to tell, and in a perfect world, everyone would get the opportunity to tell it. Some of us… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'm always going to be able to touch fans and get new fans because everybody goes through something everyday. I just keep… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
Nefertiti is lovely, but we should use our wit and will to look beyond that beautiful face to discover and to enjoy… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know the first time I ever saw you?" he said with his lips at my ear. I knew… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things… — Heather James Copy Share Image
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean… — Paul Darrow Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I actually feel empowered now to say, if I see a script, 'No. I don't want to tell this story. I don't… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
