We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Blasting the music,Sit in the corner with thoughts,Close my eyes, cover my ears,and realizing everything I've done, over thinking and opened my… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
[Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably… — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some… — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
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![“I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know…” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2d/kate-dicamillo-599_complaining_i-was-over-at-alison-s-mcghee-i-think-we_2864462.jpg)
![“Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made up, I realized that nevertheless, it really was crucial, crucial for how he understood himself, I believe, and certainly crucial for how anyone else ever engaged…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/808/jonathon-keats-10822_able_just-getting-totally-absorbed-in-that-an_3021421.jpg)
![“At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover…” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aea/rem-koolhaas-5371_abandoned_at-that-time-90th-in-lagos-if-you-drove_669157.jpg)
![“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.” quote by Lucrecia Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/771/lucrecia-martel-47278_communication_my-love-of-storytelling-comes-from-oral_2757192.jpg)
![“[Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel popcorn. I think that was the coolest thing, sharing popcorn with this movie star. And then we wrestled! I always share that story with people.” quote by Quindon Tarver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb8/quindon-tarver-26055_caramel_leonardo-dicaprio-invited-me-into-his-dr_2794665.jpg)
![“I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.” quote by Whit Stillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/edb/whit-stillman-16157_adapted_i-think-a-lot-of-cosmopolitans-is-marked_422570.jpg)
![“I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.” quote by Dylan O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea0/dylan-o-brien-7142_comfortable_i-felt-really-comfortable-on-the-maze-ru_667065.jpg)
