I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room… — Arnold Jacobs Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all. — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that… — Alfonso Herrera Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
